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  • image SM Adam volume 20/81

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/81

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for an overmantel mirror frame, 1770

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular mirror frame, ornamented with fluting, and reed and ribbon, and bound with acanthus leaves, with candle branches attached at the right-hand bottom corner, and surmounted by rinceaux, rosettes, and anthemia

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Glass for the Honourable Mrs Ann Pitt

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (499 x 397)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
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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