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[82] Preliminary design for a mirror frame for an unknown room, c1779; it is not known if this design was executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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