drawing
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1364
- 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; a lofty building, with two projecting colonnaded porticos, seen in perspective from the right foreground, a balustrade with trees and hills, and a half-reclining figure. c.1702-8
Pen and brown ink, with brown-grey wash
- Production date
- 1702-1708 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 101 millimetres
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Width: 92 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Mounted with 1865,0610.1363
Mounted with 1865,0610.1361
See also 1865,0610.1359
See also 1865,0610.1360
See also 1865,0610.1362
- 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
- 1865,0610.1364