drawing
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1360
- Description
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One of the drawings for decorative paintings, in Chatsworth (?), Design for the decoration of the Little Dining Room, Architectural fantasy; an archway with a colonnaded projection, seen in perspective from the right, with three figures, standing, seated, and lying against a rock, a line of trees and a range of mountains. c.1702-8
Pen and brown ink, with brown-grey wash
- Production date
- 1702-1708 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 110 millimetres
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Width: 93 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Mounted with 1865,0610.1359
Mounted with 1865,0610.1362
See also 1865,0610.1361
See also 1865,0610.1363
See also 1865,0610.1364
- 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
- 1865,0610.1360