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[2] Designs for two chimneypieces
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Reference number
SM 81/2/81
Purpose
[2] Designs for two chimneypieces
Aspect
Front Drawing Room and Bow drawing room
Scale
to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above and Dr Pembleton
Signed and dated
- 30/12/1800
(Copy) Lincolns Inn Fields Decr 30th / 1800
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (340 x 544)
Hand
Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.
Notes
The restrained designs are the same except that the bow room parlour has a taller mirror by one foot. The frames to the mirrors have 'pilasters' on either side and across the top, and are stopped by a rosette which re-appears beneath the mantel.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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