[8] Unfinished design for a carpet for the drawing room, not known to have been executed, c1786

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - Brighton
    - Marlborough House, Brighton, Sussex, designs for a house and its interior, for W.G. Hamilton, as executed, c1786 (13)
      - Unfinished design for a carpet for the drawing room, not known to have been executed, c1786 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/211

Purpose

[8] Unfinished design for a carpet for the drawing room, not known to have been executed, c1786

Aspect

Plan of a carpet ornamented with a central patera enclosed within bands of beading, rosettes, and contiguous floral wreaths. Beyond this there is an urn, corner fans enclosed within a band of Vitruvian scroll, and all of this is set within a border of rosettes enclosed by lozenges

Scale

bar scale of 5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

(in pencil) Carpet Mr Hamilton Drawing room at Brighton / Carpet Mr Hamilton Drawing room at Brightstone (?) / Light Green ground / Light Yellow Ground

Signed and dated

c1786
c1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, pink, lemon yellow and yellow ochre on laid paper (501 x 363)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

Fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
Miele, 1998, p. 165
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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