Design (plan and elevation) for a window seat in an architectural structure, perhaps a garden pavilion
Drawing
| Artist/Maker |
An elaborate architectural structure, with a window opening framed by columns above the stone seat, Classical busts in roundels, and a crowning element consisting of two female allegorical figures holding a laurel crown aloft. Through the window opening there is a garden with two statues on pedestals, a lake and an arch beyond.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | Design (plan and elevation) for a window seat in an architectural structure, perhaps a garden pavilion (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink on paper, with grey wash, over graphite; with compass holes and stylus indentation; framing line in black ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, Design (plan and elevation) for a window seat in an architectural structure, perhaps a garden pavilion, by Isaac de Moucheron, Dutch School |
| Physical description | An elaborate architectural structure, with a window opening framed by columns above the stone seat, Classical busts in roundels, and a crowning element consisting of two female allegorical figures holding a laurel crown aloft. Through the window opening there is a garden with two statues on pedestals, a lake and an arch beyond. |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed at lower right, in brown ink, Moucheron · Fecit; and inscribed by the artist, below the design, in brown ink, with a scale of Dutch feet (up to 40 voet)1 and below this, at intervals: 12½ voet, 13 voet and 12½ voet; and along left edge, hoog 33½; and at lower right, by a later hand, also in brown ink (with the museum’s inv. no.), 4195; and in bottom right corner, faintly in black chalk, No 69 (?); on verso, at lower right, in graphite,
H 13½ d / b 12 d. |
| Object history | Purchased in 1874 |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. 1, Cat.137, illus. p.187. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 4195 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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