Design for a carpet for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed (1)

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Design for a carpet for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed (1)

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)

Purpose

Design for a carpet for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed (1)

Notes

Harris notes that SM Adam volume 17/197 is a rare example of an Adam design for a dining room carpet. Those designs that are known are all of a later date, for example the design for the eating room carpet at Home House (SM Adam volume 17/197), and those for the dining rooms at Cumberland House, dating to 1776 and 1780 respectively.

Level

Group

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).

Contents of Design for a carpet for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed (1)

[12] Design for a carpet for the dining room, 1778, possibly executed