[45] Record drawing for a carpet for the drawing room, 1768, as executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/171

Purpose

[45] Record drawing for a carpet for the drawing room, 1768, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite rectangular carpet, divided by bands of fret into three squares. The central square contains a circular enclosing lozenges and a fan around a roundel, and the outer squares contain octagons enclosing lozenges and fans around roundels

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Carpet for the Drawing room at Sion (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) Drawing room

Signed and dated

1768
1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (980 x 474)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or J.P. Laurent, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

X&DBC within cartouche and D&C

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Harris, 1963, Index p. 52
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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