[85] Design for a pier glass for an unknown room, c1779; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
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        George Hesse, interior decoration and furnishings for number 1 or 2, Adam Street
        Preliminary design, designs and finished drawing for mirror frames for unknown room/s, 1779; it is not known if these designs were executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/239

Purpose

[85] Design for a pier glass for an unknown room, c1779; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripartite pier glass mirror frame, supported by a pencil-drawn commode, and articulated by tapering pilasters, supported by a band of Vitruvian scroll, above a lower compartment articulated by ram legs ornamented with ram masks, and containing fans and festoons, and the frame us surmounted by a top rail ornamented with an oval medallion, and supporting urns, and calyx-shaped crockets

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for G. F. Hesse Esqr

Signed and dated

1779
datable to c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (235 x 361)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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