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Most of them are numbered, contain information about who ordered them, the date, the price (written in code), the colour of the frame and the dimensions of the finished object. \r\n\r\nThe drawings from John Linnell's workshop survive over the period 1773 to 1783. From April 1773 to August 1778, the workshop produced about twelve pieces a month. Production decreased over the next two years to 3 or 4 pieces a month. In 1783 these designs were no longer produced.\r\n\r\nRobert Adam, a leading architect, was a key influence on the neoclassical designs of John Linnell. Linnell worked with Adam for the first time at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, and they worked together on a number of other occasions. In the early 1770s festoons of husks began to be used on pier glasses and they are very prominent within these workshop designs. \r\n\r\nJohn Linnell (1729-1796) was the son of the famous furniture maker William Linnell (ca. 1703-1763). Unlike most furniture makers, John Linnell gained a design education at the St. Martin's Lane Academy, which was founded by William Hogarth in 1735. In 1750, aged 21, he joined his father's firm as a designer. On his father's death in 1763, John Linnell took over the family firm. During his lifetime John Linnell produced high quality furniture, which rivalled that of other leading furniture makers such as Thomas Chippendale, John Cobb and William Ince and John Mayhew.","physicalDescription":"'No. 39' A design for an oval frame. Half of the design is highly finished, the other half is barely sketched. The frame is vertically aligned and features neoclassical moulding. The crest is topped by a palmette. Husk festoons fall from scrolls at the top, along the sides and meet at the apron, over a patera.\r\n\r\n'No. 40' A design for an oval pier glass. The frame is vertically aligned and features neoclassical moulding and husk festoons. The crest features a palmette.\r\n\r\n'No. 41' A larger design for an oval pier glass. The frame is vertically aligned and features neoclassical moulding. Festoons hang from an urn finial. There is a separate design of the two flower patterns used in the design.\r\n\r\n'No. 42' A design for an oval pier glass. The frame is vertically aligned and features neoclassical moulding. Husk festoons, supported by acanthus scrolls, fall from an urn finial, tapering to a point at the apron.\r\n\r\n'No. 43' A design for an oval pier glass with neoclassical moulding. Half of the design is highly finished, the other half is barely sketched. From a palmette on the crest, acanthus scrolls and husk festoons loop down the sides.\r\n\r\n'No. 44' A design, possibly for a girandole. Leaf scrolls.\r\n\r\n'No. 45' A design, possibly for a girandole. It features a grape vine pattern with a bow at the base.\r\n\r\n'No. 46' A design for an oval pier glass. The frame is vertically aligned. It features ribbon-and-stick moulding, acanthus scrolls and husk festoons. The apron features a festoon and a bow. The crest is topped by a palmette and acanthus leaves. Green watercolour.\r\n\r\n'No. 47' A design for a circular pier glass with ribbon and stick moulding. Half of the design is highly finished, the other half is less detailed. From the anthemion finial fall husk festoons supported down the sides by acanthus scrolls. The apron tapers to a point with a ram's head above.\r\n\r\n'No. 48' A design for a rectangular pier glass with neoclassical moulding. Half of the design is highly finished, the other half is less detailed. The frame is vertically aligned. The crest is topped with an urn with squared handles from which husk festoons fall and continue down the side of the frame. 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