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[15] Unfinished design for a carpet for the apsidal third drawing room, 1772, probably as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/179
Purpose
[15] Unfinished design for a carpet for the apsidal third drawing room, 1772, probably as executed
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular carpet with apsidal ends, ornamented with segmental rosettes, enclosed within acanthus leaves, Vitruvian scroll, a fan, and reed and ribbon, and with two small rectangular extensions for a door and a chimneypiece, ornamented with fret, and the central flat has a rosette, enclosed within a fan of unlobed acanthus leaves, encircled by a frame of Vitruvian scroll, festoons, and a frame of reed and ribbon, and this is encircled by rinceaux, and flanked by an urn on a turned pedestal flanked by winged griffons
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Carpet for the Drawing room at Baron Grants in Soho Square
Signed and dated
- 1772
1772
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Prussian blue and Indian red on laid paper (606 x 455)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Harris, 1863, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1863, Index p. 58
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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