Design for Library Ceiling, Benton House, Northumberland, England
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Object Details
- Designer
- George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal format design for a plaster ceiling. Outside are oblong and pentagonal panels, the latter in the corners framed by an interlacing band. The pentagons are decorated with two panels each, those at left with oblongs and pentagons. Most panels show plant candelabra. The oblongs in the center of the long sides show rinceau motifs, the irregular tetragons show disks above crossed branches.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
- ca. 1775
- Accession Number
- 1940-21-12
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and watercolor, pen and ink, black chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.2 x 44.2 cm (12 11/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
- made in
- London, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1940-21-12
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq456dec3a6-72b2-4e2f-9fbe-39e277b326cb
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