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  • image SM Adam volume 6/14

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/14

Purpose

[82] Preliminary design for a mirror frame for an unknown room, c1779; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame, with an apron composed of a central ram mask, surmounted by an anthemion, and flanked by festoons and candle branches, and the frame is surmounted by winged half-sphinxes, flanked by lozenge-shaped wall brackets supporting candle branches, and connected to the sphinxes by festoons, and the sphinxes are surmounted by a tablet of anthemia, supporting an oval medallion enclosed within a wreath

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

G. Hesse Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (271 x 199)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
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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