[48] Preliminary design for a carpet for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Preliminary design for the Etruscan dressing room carpet, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/185

Purpose

[48] Preliminary design for a carpet for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a square carpet, with apsidal ends containing a segmental rosette, encircled by a fan enclosing calyx, and the central square contains a rosette, encircled within a shaped octagonal frame, with a rosette within a band of scrolled hearts in each corner, and this is enclosed within an octagonal frame of lion masks and guilloche, encircled by festoons, and a large circular wreath of calyx, surmounted by paired birds, and interrupted by enclosed rosettes, and with triangular compartments in each corner, containing urns flanked by swags, and the whole carpet has a border of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sketch of a Carpet for Lord Stanley's Bow Dressing Room

Signed and dated

1775
1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (483 x 368)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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