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[81] Finished drawing for a carpet for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/189
Purpose
[81] Finished drawing for a carpet for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular carpet, with a central rosette, encircled by acanthus leaves, fret, anthemia and calyx, all within an x-shaped arrangement, framed by festoons, urns, putti riding sphinxes, and in each corner a patera, encircled by petals, guilloche, and anthemia enclosed within guilloche, and with rectangular bordering compartments divided by bands of lozenges, containing anthemia enclosed within fans, and festoons, and with a fringed edge
Scale
bar scale of 7/10 inch to one foot
Inscribed
Design of a Carpet for the Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterly
Signed and dated
- October 1775
Adelphi / 11t Octr 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, black and verdigris on laid paper (597 x 442)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Stillman, 1966, p. 75
Harris, 2001, p. 179
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Stillman, 1966, p. 75
Harris, 2001, p. 179
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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