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Bonomi (Joseph)

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pen and watercolour, 315 x 470mm., 13_ x 18½in., scale rule (but no numbers) at foot, titled as above and inscribed "By Joseph Bonomi 1790 (C A de C)" in a later hand, verso with the small ink stamp of the RIBA (where the drawing was on deposit) endorsed in pencil "Returned to owner".

***Provenance: By descent from Joseph Bonomi to the present owner. A group of drawings by Bonomi from this collection was sold in these rooms, 1 June 2000, lots 80-87. The same carpet design, with minor variations, can be seen in Bonomi's perspective for the Great Room at Montagu House of 1790. This is a more highly finished version of a partially coloured drawing in the RIBA Drawings collection which is signed by Bonomi and has detailed measurements for the weavers in ink. The title is in the hand of Charles Anthony de Cosson, a descendant of Bonomi. The house was destroyed in 1941. .

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