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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/206

Purpose

[23] Design for a carpet for the music room, 1780-81

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular carpet with a central oval compartment, containing a lyre enclosed by a band of enclosed flowers, and festoons, flanked on either side by lunette-shaped compartments containing music trophies within wreaths, all divided by bands of guilloche enclosing rosettes, and framed by shells, bouquets, and patera

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for a Carpet for the Music room at Cumberland House

Signed and dated

  • 1780-1781
    date range: 1780-1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil within a single ruled border on laid paper (442 x 594)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, Index p. 57
For a full list of 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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