Design for a carpet, ND

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Other
  - Unattributed drawings
    - Unattributed designs for furniture and fixtures
      - Carpets and pavements

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/210

Purpose

Design for a carpet, ND

Aspect

Plan of a carpet for an apsidal-ended room. The principal rectangular section is ornamented with a central patera, set with an oval band and surrounded by grape vines, intertwined with wheat, which form X-shaped compartments. The compartments contain baskets of fruit and wheat and all this is bordered by a band of calyx. The apsidal compartment is ornamented with a fan and wreaths of wheat and vine, all set within bands of calyx. The flier (flap) reveals alternative ornamentation for the apsidal compartment, with a variation of the wreath and fan composition

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 feet

Inscribed

210 / folding alterations (modern curatorial hand, pencil)

Signed and dated

ND
ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue, pink, olive green and Indian yellow on laid paper (531x365)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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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.

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