Graphite, gray wash, pen and black ink and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 7/8 inches (21.9 x 32.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, upper left: "No: 51;" crossed out in pen and brown ink upper center: "No. 53"; in pen and brown ink upper center: "Writing Table"; inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, throughout drawing labeling parts of the table: "A - F" in upper case and also "f"; in pen and brown ink over graphite lower left: "Chippendale: invert del"; lower center: "Published According to Act of Parliment"; lower right: "M [...] sculp"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1630
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
still life | writing tables | furniture
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Thomas Chippendale, The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. . . [third edition], Accessed April 25, 2023, p. 10, pl. LXXIV, Gale Primary Sources : Making of the Modern World, Part IThomas Chippendale, The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold [sic] furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste. . . [first edition], Accessed April 25, 2023, p. 14, pl. LI, Gale Primary Sources : Making of the Modern World, Part IKathryn James, English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, p. 77, fig. 92, Z115.E5 J36 2020+ (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English drawings and watercolours : 20 April 1972, Sotheby's, April 20, 1972, p. 6, lot 38, pl. IV, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p.145, no. 123, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)