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[9] Design for pier glass frame for the gallery, 1765, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/13
Purpose
[9] Design for pier glass frame for the gallery, 1765, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular pier glass, ornamented with arabesques, and rosettes, with an apron of acanthus leaves, rosettes, festoons, and wreaths, and surmounted by acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes, a shell, a tubular flower, and an anthemion, and with feint annotations in pencil
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Glass frame for Sir Laurence Dundass
Signed and dated
- 1765
Robt Adam Architect 1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (318 x 503)
Hand
Adam office hands, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
Literature
Harris, 1963, pp. 53, 77
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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