[59] Design for an overmantel mirror frame, 1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Design for an overmantel mirror frame, 1779, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/201

Purpose

[59] Design for an overmantel mirror frame, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite overmantel mirror frame, ornamented with ram masks, festoons of husks and bands of laurel leaf tips. The central compartment is surmounted by an urn, enclosed within a wreath, and flanked by griffins with tails forming arabesques

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Glass frame over Chimney Piece in the Eating room at Sir Abraham Humes in Hill Street / 201 / (and in pencil) N / O / N / N / O / N

Signed and dated

Jan 1779
Adelphi / 11. Janry 1779-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (296 x 435)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Harris, 1963, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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