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[11] Dining room, perspective design 17 June 1808
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Reference number
SM volume 59/106
Purpose
[11] Dining room, perspective design 17 June 1808
Aspect
Interior perspective
Inscribed
Earl of Breadalbane and View of the Dining Room
Signed and dated
- 07/06/1808
June 7th 1808
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, pink, blue, yellow and green washes, with mutli-ruled and sepia wash border, on wove paper, (340 x 430)
Hand
The office Day Book has an entry under 7 June 1808 - 'Lord Breadalbane / Copying internal Sketch / for fitting out of the Dining / Room / Edwards' which suggests Francis Edwards (1784-1857, improver July 1806-October 1810) as the draugstsman for this drawing - and probably the other perspective drawings in this volume for Taymouth Castle.
Notes
One of three interiior perspectives for the dining room, this one is the same as the following drawing [12] while drawing [13] has a different ceiling and colour scheme.
Level
drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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