Gothic Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II
Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate C 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, brown, yellow and blue wash
21.8 x 33.8cm
20.40.2(2)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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