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[2] Design for a carpet for the drawing room, 1775
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/193
Purpose
[2] Design for a carpet for the drawing room, 1775
Aspect
Plan of a circular carpet, set within the plan of a rectangular room with segmental bows on each long end. The carpet has a central rosette, encircled by a fan enclosing anthemia, a band of Vitruvian scroll, rosettes and festoons, and with a border of rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths
Scale
bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Carpet for the Great Drawing room at Saxham House
Signed and dated
- December 1775
Adelphi December 1st 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte and pink on laid paper (583 x 437)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
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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