Drawing for three chairs
Thomas Chippendale1753
Leeds Museums & Galleries
United Kingdom
This is the original drawing for plate XIV in the first edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1754) and included as plate XI in the third edition of 1762. For Chippendale's prefatory notes see LEEAG.CHIPSOC.1975.4b. The drawing is inscribed top left ‘No 14' and right ‘3'. The rear left leg stumps are added in pencil. The manuscript was pirated from the albums of original Chippendale drawings purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1920. It has been dismounted from the numbered leaf of blue wove paper with which was cut from the album.
This item is owned by The Chippendale Society. Explore the Society’s website and collections by clicking the external link below.
- Title: Drawing for three chairs
- Creator: Thomas Chippendale
- Date Created: 1753
- Location Created: England
- Physical Dimensions: 200mm x 350mm
- Provenance: 4th Baron Foley; William Fowkes of Droitwich; his nephew John Marks; Sotheby’s 20 April 1972, lot 37; O. F. Wilson (Antiques) Ltd; bought by the Chippendale Society with the aid of a government grant and contributions from The Art Fund and the Pilgrim Trust, 1975
- Subject Keywords: Chippendale
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: The Chippendale Society LEEAG.CHIPSOC.1975.4d
- Medium: Pen and grey wash on paper
- External link: Explore the Chippendale Society's collection
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