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[22] Unfinished preliminary design for a carpet for the drawing room, c1767-79, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/186
Purpose
[22] Unfinished preliminary design for a carpet for the drawing room, c1767-79, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular carpet with a central rectangular compartment containing arabesques, and a central patera encircled by a fan, and oval bands of beading, and anthemia and calyx, and with a ground of rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, and a border of beading, calyx, and rosettes enclosed within lozenges
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Carpet for the Drawing room at Osterly (in pen) / (and in pencil) Blue / Brown / Blue / Yellow / Blue Ground
Signed and dated
- 1767-1779
date range: 1767-79
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (583 x 380)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Stillman, 1966, p. 72
Beard, 1978, p. 42
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Stillman, 1966, p. 72
Beard, 1978, p. 42
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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