drawing
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1334
- Description
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One of the drawings for decorative paintings, in Stoke Edith (?), 17-7, Design perhaps for the decoration of the Hall; a group of five figures, two seated and three standing, one holding a scroll, with a colonnaded building and an arcade
Pen and brown in, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1700-1707 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 85 millimetres
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Width: 77 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The decoration of Stoke Edith, for Thomas Foley, was Thornhill's first important commission.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Acquisition notes
- The group of 56 drawings by Thornhill, 1865,0610.1325 to 1380, was composed of the 34 drawings that formed lot 323 in the sale of the library of John Towneley (Sotheby's, 10-11.v.1865, £4 8s to Daniell), and 22 more drawings from Daniell's stock (part of a group purchased together with two drawings by David Allan and Richard Cosway - for which see 1865, 0610.1320 to 1322 - for £3 7s). It does not seem possible to say which drawings came from which source.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0610.1334
