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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)

Preliminary design for a carpet for Lady Coventry's dressing room, 1767, as executed (1)

The needlework carpet, made to this design for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room was acquired by the De Young Fine Art Museum in San Francisco in 1989. Adam designed the carpet in 1767 to echo the ceiling, and according to Harris, 'it is thought to have been worked on by Lady Coventry herself'.

Adam provided Lord Coventry with this design in March 1767, and charged him £5.5s. for the design, and £4.4s. for a working drawing. No presentation or working drawings for the carpet survive.

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Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)

[37] Preliminary design for a carpet for Lady Coventry's dressing room, 1767, as executed

1767

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

SM Adam volume 17/170

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