[16] Working drawing for a carpet for the great room, c1767

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
      - Alternative preliminary designs, design, and working drawings for a carpet for the great room, c1767 (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 18/57

Purpose

[16] Working drawing for a carpet for the great room, c1767

Aspect

Plan of a detail of a carpet, with a central compartment of paterae, within a frame of Greek key fret, and with a border of guilloche enclosing rosettes, and a further frame of Greek key fret

Scale

full size

Inscribed

For Lord Coventry (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1767
datable to 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including red, violet and olive green on laid paper (593 x 576)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 44
Harris, 1963, Index p. 57
Stillman, 1966, pp. 107-8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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