[15] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for the front drawing room for Lord Scarsdale, 1772, as executed

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    - Mansfield Street, London: designs for interior decoration of eight houses, built as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1772-75 (35)
      - Mansfield Street, number 15
        Finished drawing for a mirror frame for the front drawing room for Lord Scarsdale, 1772, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/10

Purpose

[15] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for the front drawing room for Lord Scarsdale, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular mirror frame ornamented with fluting, with a fan apron with anthemia and festoons, and surmounted by two sphinxes flanking a wreath enclosing a peltoid shield and supporting an urn surmounted by an anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the front Drawing room at Lord Scarsdale's in Mansfield St

Signed and dated

10/10/1772
Adelphi / 10t Octr 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (292 x 407)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 2001, p. 35
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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