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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/99

Purpose

[7] Rough preliminary design of a carpet for the great drawing room, 1769

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite rectangular carpet divided on one side by bands of diamonds, on two others by bands containing a tazza flanked by winged creatures. In the central rectangle, a lozenge contains a large oval rosette with four anthemia, all surrounded by festoons, with fans in the corners. In a side panel, a figure flanked by arabesques

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Carpet for Mr Parkers Drawing Room / Carpet / Mr Fermors Eating Room and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (560 x 415)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 27
Beard, 1978, pp. 13, 47
For full literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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