[4] Sketch design for alternative chimney-pieces, left and right, with tall mid-height picture frames, chamfer-cornered on left and square on right, the left one bordered by a caryatid console and the right one by a foliage drop, and the overmantel with a single martial composition of putti, shields and arms

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English Baroque Drawings: architecture, sculpture and garden design
- Hampton Court Palace
  - Designs for chimney-pieces, room cornices and entablatures, door cases and internal wall elevations, c.1689-1694, mostly by Grinling Gibbons
    - Five sketch designs, with alternatives, for plainer chimney-pieces, related to designs in 1, 4, and 5

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Reference number

SM, volume 110/42

Purpose

[4] Sketch design for alternative chimney-pieces, left and right, with tall mid-height picture frames, chamfer-cornered on left and square on right, the left one bordered by a caryatid console and the right one by a foliage drop, and the overmantel with a single martial composition of putti, shields and arms

Aspect

Elevation of two alternative schemes

Scale

Not indicated, but about 1 foot to 1 inch

Inscribed

In ink by George Dance at bottom right, Gd, and to right by a C19 hand, (41[)]

Signed and dated

Undated, but probably dating 1689-94

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink over graphite under-drawing, with greenish brown wash; on smooth white laid paper, with pinkish brown staining in top 45 mm of sheet; 370 x 234

Hand

Gibbons

Watermark

Strasbourg Lily/4WR/AJ

Notes

The trophy is similar to that on 110/26 (section 6/4, no. 2). The design may be preparatory for this grander chimney piece design, or could have been derived from it. The most obvious difference between the two designs is the absence in this drawing of any architectural or sculptural framing around the hearth.

Literature

D. Esterly, Gibbons, 1998, p. 132, fig. 106; Wren Society, IV, pl. 35, bottom

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 22 October 1998 - 24 February 1999

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