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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/27

Purpose

[46] Preliminary design for a mirror frame, 1770, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame, ornamented with anthemia enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons, with an apron of rinceaux, calyx, rosettes, and a lion mask, and surmounted by rinceaxu, rosettes, an anthemion supported by a mask, and an urn

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    datable to 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (294 x 459)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, Index p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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