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Gothic Clothes Chest, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale
Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate C in the 1754 and 1755 editions, and renumbered as plate CXXVII in the 1762 edition.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1920 ...
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1753
Black ink, gray wash
18.9 x 34.3cm
20.40.2(74)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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