Lady's Writing Table and Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale

1760 · Black ink, gray wash · Drawings and Prints

Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate CXVII in the third edition of 1762, but created as early as 1760 according to the Act of Parliament on the print itself.

Artist

Thomas Chippendale

Date

1760

Medium

Black ink, gray wash

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1920