Tile design of a landscape for the Grill Room, South Kensington Museum
Design (Visual Work)
1868 (designed)
1868 (designed)
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Watercololour. Blue and white roundel design for tiles. A medieval settlement is depicted on a shoreline, receding leftwards in perspective from the far right foreground. Hoardings run along the top of the settlement’s outer wall, which is punctuated with towers. In the middle distance, a pier projects leftwards from the wall to reach a small rocky outcrop via a drawbridge. A lighthouse or beacon tower sits on the outcrop, issuing a large plume of smoke. Several birds fly over the water in the centre left foreground. A blue border encloses the composition.
Object details
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| Title | Tile design of a landscape for the Grill Room, South Kensington Museum (generic title) |
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| Brief description | Dado tile design by E. J. Poynter for the Grill Room, South Kensington Museum: 1 of 11 land and seascape subjects. About 1868. |
| Physical description | Watercololour. Blue and white roundel design for tiles. A medieval settlement is depicted on a shoreline, receding leftwards in perspective from the far right foreground. Hoardings run along the top of the settlement’s outer wall, which is punctuated with towers. In the middle distance, a pier projects leftwards from the wall to reach a small rocky outcrop via a drawbridge. A lighthouse or beacon tower sits on the outcrop, issuing a large plume of smoke. Several birds fly over the water in the centre left foreground. A blue border encloses the composition. |
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| Object history | Edward John Poynter was invited to tender for the decoration of the Grill Room in November 1865. He signed many of his dado tile designs for the Grill Room with his monogram and the date 1868. Although this particular example does not appear to bear any such information, it was probably made at around the same time. Indeed, judging from the Seventeenth Report of the Science and Art Department, the Grill Room's dado tiles were all installed by the end of 1869 at the latest. |
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| Accession number | 1121:5 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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