[65] Record drawing for a carpet for the state bedchamber, 1778

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Variant unfinished design and record drawing for a carpet for the state bedchamber, 1778, drawing 64 as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/191

Purpose

[65] Record drawing for a carpet for the state bedchamber, 1778

Aspect

Plan of a U-shaped carpet as Adam volume 17/192, but with the feet of both sets of bedposts shown, and with a border of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Carpet for the State Bed at Osterly / (and in another hand) N.B..... Mr. C. thinks this should be made of the thin sort of Carpetting. / The Border is much approved of. / The Green the Colour of the Velvet / Border of the Room (in pencil in a third hand)

Signed and dated

November 1778
(64) Adelphi / 16t Febry 1778 (65) Adelphi . Novr. 8t. 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris and pink (544 x 451)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, inscribed in an unknown hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Harris, 2001, p. 177
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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