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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/166

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a carpet for the dressing room, c1766

Aspect

Plan of a square carpet, with a large central circular compartment, containing a rosette, enclosed by a fan, encircled by calyx and anthemia, and set within a circular frame ornamented with Greek crosses and octagons enclosing rosettes, and beyond the circular compartment is an oval Chinoiserie-style medallion in each corner, and the carpet has a border composed of a band of enclosed anthemia, and a band of festoons

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Carpet for Mrs Montagu

Signed and dated

  • c1766
    datable to c1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washed including Prussian blue, Indian red and Indian yellow on laid paper (403 x 461)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
Stillman, 1966, p. 99
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
Beard, 1978, p. 61
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 312
Eger, 2008, p. 27
Pullins, 2008, p. 401
Aymonino, 2013, p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings, National Portrait Gallery, London, 13 March - 15 June 2008
Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013
Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk