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  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/37 verso

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/37 verso

Purpose

[147] Preliminary design for unknown carpets, c1759-68

Aspect

Rough plan of a rectangular carpet with a central flower within a roundel of Vitruvian scroll and encircled by festoons, and with baskets and cornucopia along the edges

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1759-1761
    1759-61

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (472 x 246)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

LVG and garter cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Level

Drawing

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