Breakfast Tables, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II
Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate XXXIII in the 1754 and 1755 editions, renumbered as plate LIII in the 1762 edition.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1920
1754
Black ink, gray wash
20.4 x 30.7 cm
20.40.2(46)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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