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  • image SM Adam volume 20/8

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/8

Purpose

[76] Design for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1765

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror set between two windows, and with a frame ornamented with candle branches, acanthus leaves, arabesques, an urn, and an anthemion enclosed within a wreath, as executed

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Great Drawing room at Kedleston

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (240 x 405)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50, 86
Harris, 1987, p. 40
Harris, 2001, pp. 29, 337
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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