[5] Preliminary design for a pier glass for the back parlour, 1770

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 25 (later number 28), London: designs for interior decoration for Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet, 1769-70 (9)
      - Preliminary design for a pier glass for the back parlour, 1770 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/75

Purpose

[5] Preliminary design for a pier glass for the back parlour, 1770

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame, alternatively ornamented with a serpentine ribbon, and calyx, or by scrolls, calyx, arabesques, and anthemia, and with projecting corners, and with a term in profile on each side, supporting a drop of calyx, and with an apron of swags flanking a mask, and surmounted by an oval medallion, flanked by rinceaux, urns, calyx, festoons and surmounted by an urn and anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

For the back Parlor for Sir Rob.t Rich in Grosvenor Sqr.

Signed and dated

1770
1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (243 x 417)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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