Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as one of three chair designs on plate XIII in the third edition of 1762, but created as early as 1761 according to the Act of Parliament on the print itself.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1920
1761
Black ink, gray ink and gray wash
18.9 x 13.3 cm
20.40.1(21)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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