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  • image SM Adam volume 20/14

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/14

Purpose

[34] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for the dining room, 1765, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular mirror frame ornamented with rosettes, arabesques, paterae, calyx and volutes supporting busts, and with an apron of anthemia, festoons, acanthus leaves and rosettes, and surmounted by a shell, anthemion, rosettes and acanthus leaves scrolling into arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Pier Glass for the Dining room at Syon House

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (277 x 418)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Harris, 1963, Index p. 52, and p. 77
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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