[67] Finished drawing for an overmantel mirror frame for the state bedchamber, 1777, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Finished drawing for an overmantel mirror frame for the state bedchamber, 1777, executed with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/48

Purpose

[67] Finished drawing for an overmantel mirror frame for the state bedchamber, 1777, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular overmantel mirror frame, with a frame ornamented with enclosed anthemia and beading, and surmounted by putti holding festoons, and flanking an oval figurative medallion surmounted by an eagle

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Glass Frame to be placed over the Chimney in the Bed Chamber at Osterly

Signed and dated

April 1777
Adelphi / 24t Apl 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including lemon yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (364 x 601)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Harris, 2001, p. 174
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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