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  • image SM Adam volume 20/157

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/157

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for a mirror frame, 1775

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, articulated by tapering pilasters ornamented with drops of calyx, surmounted by enclosed patera, and turned legs, with a base rail ornamented with enclosed rosettes, and the top rail of the outer compartments is ornamented with enclosed anthemia, and surmounted by rinceau, and half putti supporting the central portion of the mirror, which has a top rail ornamented with laurel leaves, and surmounted by winged sphinxes, flanking a medallion, and supporting an urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for Hutchinson Mure Esqr / (and in pencil) each plate 30£ more than / the plate is the Memorandum

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    datable to 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 408)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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