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  • image SM Adam volume 20/212

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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