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Record copies of design and working drawings for a new eating room, c. early 1785 (8)

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The design for the eating room is conventional, a room 22' 10½" by 30-0' with an oval ceiling, a chimney-piece on one long side opposite three tall windows, tall round-headed alcoves in the centre of each of the shorter walls with, on one short wall, a flanking door and (for symmetry) a matching blind door. The room is panelled and there is a double festoon over each alcove.

The iconography of Bacchus with vine leaves, thyrsus (an attribute of Bacchus), poppyheads (attribute of Morpheus, the god of dreams, Hypnos the god of sleep and of Night) and pitcher (can signify temperance) no doubt appealed to the Branthwayts. However, the more subtle linear detailing is interesting, for example, the fluting of the chimney-piece frieze with reeding for the pilasters of the jambs and horizontal banding for the junction of the two. Again (see drawings 6 and 9), the correspondence between the entablature of the door and that for the chimney-piece is not exact - different function and material - but is evident.

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Contents of Record copies of design and working drawings for a new eating room, c. early 1785 (8)