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[35] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for an unknown room for Sir Edward Dering, c1775
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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.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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