Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [35] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for an unknown room for Sir Edward Dering, c1775

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 20/148

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/148

Purpose

[35] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for an unknown room for Sir Edward Dering, c1775

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame, ornamented with scrolled hearts alternating with fans, and with an apron of festoons hung from bars to each side, each supporting a sphinx and a segmental enclosed rosette, and surmounted by a tubular flower and urn enclosed within a vesica-shaped wreath of calyx, and above this are arabesques flanking an anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    datable to c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (240 x 407)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk