Bill for furniture supplied to David Garrick from Thomas Chippendale

This bill is from Chippendale’s account for the actor David Garrick. The bill covers the period from 24 January to 18 July 1770. The inscription at the bottom of the receipt is the signature of Thomas Chippendale himself. It appears to be from the same sequence of bills as those held by the National Art Library, which run from May 1768 to January 1772 with a gap between July 1769 and January 1771. This bill fills the gap.
The furniture was destined either for Garrick’s house in Southampton Row or for his Chiswick villa, since his new house at the Adelphi was not yet finished (Garrick moved there from Southampton Row in early 1772). It was mostly of an everyday domestic nature and included bedding, bedroom furniture, curtains and even a second-hand bureau dressing chest. The total came to £56 12s 6d, of which £31 10s had already been received in cash, with a further 10s ‘allowed on two book shelfs’, presumably a rebate against the cost of the two bookshelves mentioned in the bill. The remainder, £24 12s 11d, was paid and receipted on 27 June 1771, at which time £15 8s 8d was also paid on account against future bills. Indeed, by this date more furniture had already been supplied and is listed in the next bill in the National Art Library sequence which runs from January 1771 to February 1772.