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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/258

Purpose

[20] Design for mirror frame for the hall-cum-dining room, 1773

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame, with a frame ornamented with segmental compartments, with anthemia, festoons, an enclosed rosette, urns, winged lions, and suspended from a bracket centred on an ox skull, an enclosed urn, and an anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

12 (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (295 x 439)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

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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