Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Thirteen designs for tall and richly sculpted chimney-pieces, in a variety of wash colours; probably for principal state rooms

Purpose

Thirteen designs for tall and richly sculpted chimney-pieces, in a variety of wash colours; probably for principal state rooms

Signed and dated

  • 1689
    Main Year
  • 1690-94
    Other Years

Notes

110/24, 25, 34, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52. All these designs are colour-washed and include cornices, or indications of cornices or entablatures in the zone above the overmantel. The chimney pieces are mostly tall in proportion or large in scale, and are probably proposals for principal state rooms.

Level

Group

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Contents of Thirteen designs for tall and richly sculpted chimney-pieces, in a variety of wash colours; probably for principal state rooms