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Four designs for doors to the king's apartments, c.1693-94
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Four designs for doors to the king's apartments, c.1693-94
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Four designs for doors to the king's apartments, c.1693-94
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- 1694
Main Year - 1693
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110/57, 55, 54, 56. Wren states in his estimate for finishing the sequence of rooms from the Guard Chamber to the Great bedchamber and Gallery: 'All the Insides of these Roomes have been long since designed'. These designs were probably made towards the end of the period 1689-94. Of the four, only 1 (110/57) was worked on subsequently. Hawksmoor's pencilled amendments to this drawing were probably made in 1699.
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Contents of Four designs for doors to the king's apartments, c.1693-94
- [1] Design for the internal doorcase of the King's Bedchamber, with a open scrolled pediment and vase finials, a foliated frieze with consoles, and an eared architrave frame
- [2] Design for a doorcase with a segmental pediment on angled consoles and a combined tympanum and frieze with swags of fruit and flower, possibly for the King's Bedchamber
- [3] Design for a doorcase with a foliated cornice and a frieze with cherubs, swags and console brackets, probably for the inside of the King's Writing Closet
- [4] Incomplete sketch design for a doorcase with a foliated pilaster frame and capital, continued as a console and shell motif in the frieze, and with swags of fruit and flowers in a sub-frieze