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[35] Preliminary design for a carpet, 1775, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/140
Purpose
[35] Preliminary design for a carpet, 1775, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Plan of a detail of a carpet, composed of alternating octagons containing rosettes enclosed within wreaths, and x-shaped compartments containing rosettes enclosed within lozenges accompanied by drops of calyx at each corner, and with a border of fret, and rosettes enclosed within connected hexagons, and anthemia
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Mr Weddell / Mosaic Carpet / dark / yellow / Green / Border and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1775
datable to 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (201 x 263)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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