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[83] Design for an overmantel 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 20/212
Purpose
[83] Design for an overmantel mirror frame for an unknown room, c1779; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Elevation of an oval overmantel mirror frame, enclosed within a wreath, with smaller wreaths to the top and bottom, with a rosette enclosed within the bottom wreath, and a tubular flower and calyx in the top wreath, which is surmounted by an anthemion, and the frame is flanked by two bars supporting swans, festoons, and drops of calyx, tubular flowers, and circular medallions
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Glass over Chimney Peice for _ Hesse Esqr
Signed and dated
- 1779
datable to c1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and violet and terre verte washes in laid paper (210 x 267)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
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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