[4] Finished drawing for a pier glass 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 20/105

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a pier glass for the dressing room or eating room, 1772

Aspect

Elevation of an oval pier glass frame, ornamented with foliage enclosed within figure-of-eight beading, alternating with double calyx, and with an apron of festoons and a lamp, and surmounted by an oval cameo in a fluted frame, and an urn flanked by rinceaux and festoons and a lamp, and hung by rope from a lion mask surmounted by arabesques and a tubular flower

Scale

bar scale of 2 ¼ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Glass frame for George Keate’s Parlor / Dressing room (in pencil)

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (292 x 437)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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