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  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/33 verso

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/33 verso

Purpose

Preliminary design for a carpet, ND

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular carpet ornamented with a central rosette, surrounded by ox and lion masks, which suspend festoons of husks, which form a lozenge-shaped compartment. This is surrounded by rosettes set within wreaths of husks and all this is set within a band of Vitruvian scroll and a band of rosettes

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

8 foot square (pencil) / Scale ¾ of an inch to a foot (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (195x201)

Hand

Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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