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Frets, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate CLV in the 1754 and 1755 editions, not reprinted in the 1762 edition.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1920

1754

Black ink, gray wash

21.4 x 24.8 cm

20.40.2(99)

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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