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  • image SM Adam volume 20/78

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/78

Purpose

[49] Finished drawing for a pier glass frame, 1770, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass, with a fluted frame, ornamented with enclosed rosettes, beading, egg and dart moulding, drops of calyx hung from consoles supporting terms holding the ends of festoons, which are hung from lion masks on the top rail, and with an apron of rinceaux acanthus leaves, rosettes, and anthemia, and surmounted by rinceaux acanthus leaves, rosettes, and anthemia

Inscribed

Glass frame for William Weddell Esqr at Newby

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (287 x 600)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 2001, p. 357
Harris, 1963, Index p. 51 and p. 80
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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