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[27] Design for a pier glass frame and candle stands for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, part executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/169
Purpose
[27] Design for a pier glass frame and candle stands for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, part executed
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame, ornamented with a band of enclosed anthemia and surmounted by a central figurative medallion. This supports an urn ornamented with gadrooning and ram masks, and draped by festoons. All this is flanked by winged griffins and corner arabesques. The pier glass is flanked by candle stands as Adam volume 6/52
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Glass frame for the piers in the Great Drawing room at Bathurst House
Signed and dated
- January 1778
Adelphi / 31st Janry 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (376 x 555)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Notes
While we have surviving example for this design for the candle stand, it is unknown whether the design for the peir glass frame was also executed.
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 84
Harris, 2001(a), p. 15
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 84
Harris, 2001(a), p. 15
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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