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Museum number: 1865,0610.1364
Description: 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
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School/style
Production date: 1702-1708 (circa)
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 101 millimetres; 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
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray (unpublished) / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum: artists born 1665 to 1715 (9); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (53(b))
Location: Not on display
Subjects: interior; architecture
Associated places: Associated with: Chatsworth
Acquisition name
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

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