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  • image SM Adam volume 20/213

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/213

Purpose

[84] 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, enclosed within a wreath, with smaller wreaths at the top and bottom of the frame, with an enclosed rosette within the lower wreath, hanging from which are calyx and a tubular flower, and with calyx and a tubular flower in the upper wreath, which is surmounted by an anthemion, and the frame is flanked by bars supporting swans, festoons, lanterns with candle branches, and from which hang medallions and tubular flowers (verso) pencil-drawn detail of the top of the design

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandole for George Hesse Esqr (verso) Mr Hesse (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and violet and terre verte wash on laid paper (174 x 264)

Hand

Adm 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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