[38] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Designs for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for Lady Bathurst's dressing room / third drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1774, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/171

Purpose

[38] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite overmantel mirror frame articulated by tapering herm pilasters ornamented with drop calyx. The central compartment has a segmental head, bordered by calyx, and is surmounted by a figurative cameo. The cameo supports an urn bearing an anthemion, and is flanked by putti supporting festoons. Each compartment has an apron consisting of a wreath, a pendent peltoid shield and festoons. The side compartments contain candelabra supported by a base formed from half-patera. The compartments are surmounted by tablets ornamented with a medallion and swags, and surmounted by an urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Glass frame to be placed over the Chimney in Lady Bathurst’s Dressing room

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 (291 x 451)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 84
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

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