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Reference number

SM D2/9/1

Purpose

Camden Place, Kent, 1807

Aspect

[3] Plan with four semicircular alcoves and details of painted lunettes

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given including widths of 4.9 for four alcoves, 9.9 for each of two doorways and 5.10½ for the other two doorways

Signed and dated

  • 1807

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and sepia washes and watercolour technique, pencil on wove paper (430 x 350)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1794

Notes

The overall dimensions of the vestibule (19 feet by 15 feet 8 inches) correspond to those marked on [SM D2/9/20] though the dimensions of the door and window openings vary. The subjects - a reclining woman reading a book, birds eating fruit in a tassa, a cat watching a fish in a bowl, a putto chasing a butterfly and baskets with fruit and flowers - painted in a Pompeian manner suit the character of the adjacent rooms which include the library and eating room as well as the garden. The grounds of the panels are washed a dark purplish brown - perhaps sepia mixed with pink.

Other schemes for which there are drawings for Pompeian decoration are: the library at Lansdowne House, London ([SM D3/3/1] recto, [SM D3/3/5], [SM D3/7/2] and [SM D3/7/3]); the library at Stratton Park, Hampshire ([SM D1/3/11]) - other Stratton drawings ([SM D1/3/13]) and ([SM D3/7/16]) show decoration, as executed, in the style of Greek vases; the Octagon, 10 St James's Square, London ([SM D3/6/4]).

Level

Drawing

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