Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [23] Drawing made for publication for a mirror frame for the private dining parlour, 1773

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 20/120

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/120

Purpose

[23] Drawing made for publication for a mirror frame for the private dining parlour, 1773

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame ornamented with fluting, anthemia, arabesques, festoons, winged sphinxes, urns, rosettes, and surmounted by an eagle

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Glass for the Dining Parlor at Kenwood and some dimensions given (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 444)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, pp. 50, 87
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