[3] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for the dressing room or eating room, 1772

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Charlotte Street, number 9 (later 4 Bloomsbury Street), London: interior decoration and furnishings for George Keate, 1772-78 (22)
      - Finished drawings for a mirror frame and a pier glass frame for the dressing room or eating room, 1772; it is not known if these designs were executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/106

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a mirror frame for the dressing room or eating room, 1772

Aspect

Elevation of an oval mirror frame, ornamented with paired bands of calyx, forming a wreath on the bottom rail, and a scrolled heart on the top rail, supported by a fluted pedestal and winged griffons, and surmounted by a tubular flower and an urn

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for Mr. Keate's Dressing room / Eating room (in pencil)

Signed and dated

20/10/1772
Adelphi / 20t. Octr. 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (292 x 407)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
Harris, 1963, pp. 54, 87
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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