Shaving Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II
Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as the right half of plate LIV 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 wash
15.2 x 21.1cm
20.40.2(63)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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