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[54] Variant designs for a carpet for the gallery, 1768, unexecuted until the 1970s
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/172
Purpose
[54] Variant designs for a carpet for the gallery, 1768, unexecuted until the 1970s
Aspect
Plan of a detail of a rectangular carpet with a border of fret and guilloche enclosing rosettes, and the central compartment composed of rosettes enclosed by strigils. To the right-hand side are shown variants of the central pattern on a larger scale, and rosettes alternating with anthemia enclosed by lozenges
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Carpet for the Gallery at Sion (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) For Mr Adams Grosvenor Street
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including terre verte, Prussian blue and red on laid paper (583 x 445)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Harris, 1963, Index p. 52
Stillman, 1966, p. 107
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 52
Stillman, 1966, p. 107
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk