[29] Design for a pier glass frame for the great drawing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Design for the great drawing room pier glass, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/136

Purpose

[29] Design for a pier glass frame for the great drawing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame, ornamented with stiff leaf, and surmounted by female figures seated on a strigilated pedestal, and holding festoons, flanking an oval medallion containing an urn, which is surmounted by an urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

For the 3d. Drawing room at Lord Stanley's in / Grosvenor Square and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

1774
1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (255 x 435)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
Harris, 2001, p. 363
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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