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[1] Record drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for an unknown room, 1779; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/208
Purpose
[1] Record drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for an unknown room, 1779; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame. The chimneypiece has stiles ornamented with drops of calyx hung from bows, surmounted by enclosed oval rosettes in the capitals; with a plain lining, a frieze of rosettes and festoons hung from bows, and a tablet ornamented with an urn flanked by sphinxes. The overmantel mirror fame is tripartite, with the central compartment being the widest and tallest; supported by tapering columns, with tripod candelabra at each end of the mantelpiece, and with a top rail ornamented with enclosed anthemia and a central tablet containing a cameo flanked by swags, and surmounted by urns and a central anthemion
Scale
bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece & Glass frame for Peter Drinkwater Esqr
Signed and dated
- 03/03/1779
Adelphi / 3d / March 17[cropped] / 1779.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (299 x 455)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Watermark
GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 53
Harris, 1963, p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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