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  • image SM Adam volume 20/156

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/156

Purpose

[5] Design for a mirror frame between the doors in the drawing room, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, articulated by narrow terms, ornamented with drops of calyx, with a base rail ornamented with rosettes enclosed within connected hexagons, and a top rail, which is higher in the central portion, ornamented with enclosed anthemia, and the central portion of the top rail has an apron of festoons, and is surmounted by a winged sphinx flanking an oval medallion and naturalistic anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame between doors in Doctor Warren's drawing room and some measurements given / (and in pencil) £7. 10 each / The Glass / £48. 0

Signed and dated

  • 1776
    1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 394)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
Harris, 1963, Index p. 59
For a full list of 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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