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  • image SM Adam volume 20/239

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

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

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