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  • image SM Adam volume 20/69

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/69

Purpose

[9] Record drawing of the mirror in the great drawing room, 1769, as executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular fluted mirror frame surmounted by an urn, mermaids and arabesques, and with a half-figure of Neptune within a shell flanked by arabesques at the base

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to a foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for the great Drawing room at Saltram / Gla Dr [cropped] and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (275 x 453)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
For full 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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