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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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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