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  • image SM Adam volume 20/154

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/154

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for pier glass and overmantel mirror frames for the drawing room, 1776

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular mirror frame, with a tablet in the top rail containing enclosed rosettes, and swags, and surmounted by winged griffons, flanking an oval medallion, surmounted by an urn, and with pencil-drawn annotations in the top left-hand corner, showing a detail of a frame (it does not appear to be for this frame)

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the Drawing room at Anthony Chamier Esqrs / at Epsom and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • May 1776
    Adelphi / 20t May 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
Harris, 1963, Index p. 49
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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