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  • image SM volume 59/106

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

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