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  • image SM Adam volume 20/39

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/39

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for an overmantel for the front drawing room, 1770-71

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel, tripartite mirror frame similar to Adam volume 3/68, articulated by turned columns, ornamented with spiral fluting, acanthus leaves, enclosed rosettes, festoons, and candle branches, with a top rail of laurel leaf tips, with an apron of festoons and a central ram mask, and surmounted by arabesques, festoons, urns, seated female figures, and a central oval medallion flanked by winged griffons, and anthemia

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (409 x 583)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

XD&C within a cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Harris, 1963, p. 54
Harris, 2000, p. 43
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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