[9] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the ante room, 1771; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Curzon Street, number 30, Westminster: designs for interior decoration, furniture and plate for the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, 1771-73 (18)
      - Alternative designs for an overmantel mirror frame for the ante room, 1771; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/96

Purpose

[9] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for the ante room, 1771; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular overmantel mirror frame ornamented with miniature rosettes, and with a base rail ornamented with putti flanking a tazza, and the top rail has an apron of festoons, and is surmounted by arabesques and winged sphinxes, supporting a tablet of swags, and an urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 4/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame over Ante room Chimney for The Rt. Honble H. F. Thynne

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 450)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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