drawing
- Museum number
- 1865,0610.1368
- Description
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One of the drawings for the decorative paintings in Roehampton House, after 1712, Design for a wall of the saloon; an open colonnaded screen with a central elliptical arch, over a chimney-piece, simulating a pyramid topped by an urn and flanked by door openings, beyond a garden prospect with trees and a curved arcade
Pen and brown ink, with red chalk (?) and brown-grey wash
- Production date
- 1712-1734
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres
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Width: 170 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Mounted with 1865,0610.1370
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964 Dec-May, BM, Hogarth, no.25
- 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
- 1865,0610.1368