[54] Variant designs for a carpet for the gallery, 1768, unexecuted until the 1970s

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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.

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

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