[27] Unfinished preliminary design for a pier glass frame for the front drawing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Mansfield Street, London: designs for interior decoration of eight houses, built as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1772-75 (35)
      - Mansfield Street, number 22
        Unfinished preliminary design and record drawing for a pier glass frame for the front drawing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/25

Purpose

[27] Unfinished preliminary design for a pier glass frame for the front drawing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame, with festoons across the top of the glass, and surmounted by female figures, seated on volutes, flanking a pedestal ornamented with a medallion, and supporting an urn, ornamented with anthemia, and a winged sphinxes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Pier of the Drawing Room for Lady Dering

Signed and dated

1775
datable to 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (335 x 507)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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