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  • image SM Adam volume 54/1/12

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/12

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a carpet for the dressing room, c1766

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail, showing one corner of a square carpet, with a central fan, enclosed within circular frames of enclosed foliage, anthemia, and alternating Greek crosses and octagons, with an oval medallion flanked by arabesques in the corner, and with a border of enclosed anthemia, festoons, birds, and bell flowers

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Brown / Blue [ _ _ _ _ _ ] / Brown Violet

Signed and dated

  • c1766
    datable to c1766

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (199 x 166)

Hand

Robert Ada

Literature

Stillman, 1966, p. 99
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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