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  • image SM Adam volume 20/70

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/70

Purpose

[17] Record drawing of pier glass and table for the first drawing room, 1771, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a pier glass, ornamented with oak leaves, surmounted by winged sphinxes and arabesques flanking a cameo, and with a mask and ram head with festoons at the base. The table has tapering fluted legs and ball feet, a stretcher with an urn on a socle, and a frieze of alternating urns and anthemia, with patera at the ends and an apron of festoons carried around the leg

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass & Table frame for John Parker Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (290 x 449)

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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