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Alternative preliminary designs, design, and working drawings for a carpet for the great room, c1767 (4)

Stillman has made use of this set of drawings to illustrate the workings of the Adam office. Adam would produce the preliminary designs, dictating form and colour, and the draughtsmen would create worked-up drawings, albeit following Adam's careful stipulations; in this case regarding colour quite specifically.

It is not known if this carpet was executed, and it certainly does not survive at Coventry House. According to Stillman, 'the detail drawings and the inscription suggest that the design may well have been woven', and moreover, he suggests that this may have been the carpet made by Thomas Moore at a cost of £112.0s in October 1768.

Adam included his design for the carpet for the great room in his bill to Lord Coventry for work in July 1767. He charged £10.10s., and then another £5.5s. for working drawing in December of the same year.
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