Commode Clothes Press, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale

1753 · Black ink, gray wash, graphite · Drawings and Prints

Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse with a change in the decoration for the door on the right (left in the print) as plate CIV in the 1754 and 1755 editions, and renumbered as plate CXXXI in the 1762 edition.

Artist

Thomas Chippendale

Date

1753

Medium

Black ink, gray wash, graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1920