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[9] Finished drawing for an overmantel for the front drawing room, 1770-71
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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.
Harris, 1963, p. 54
Harris, 2000, p. 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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