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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/168
Purpose
[4] Design for a carpet, c1763-66
Aspect
Detail of a carpet, ornamented with guilloche enclosing rosettes, and a border of figure-of-eight acanthus leaves, and calyx, and with pencil-drawn annotations
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Carpet for Sir Laurence Dundass Baronet / (and in pencil in the hand of A.T. Bolton) (1763-5) Arlington Street? / To Design for a Carpet for the Saloon / To [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] in [ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] the [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] / [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] / (RA Bill 1766) / [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] Moor Park
Signed and dated
- 1763-1766
date range: 1763-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured wash including Indian red, cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (575 x 438)
Hand
Adam office hand, with pencil annotations in the hand of Arthur Bolton
Notes
It has been suggested that this carpet was intended for the gallery (now the dining room), but it may also have been the 'bed carpet' for Lady Dundas, included in Adam's bill for designs for Moor Park, at a cost of £1. It is not known if this design was executed.
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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