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Design for Library

Design
22 February 1866 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pencil drawing with pen and ink and a broken line of watercolour, on paper backed with linen. Concerning the ornamentation of the proposed art library, this sheet shows sections and elevations of decorative mouldings and ironwork for the first and gallery levels (see also E.1027-1030-1927). Chiefly, it shows a round-headed arcade for the first floor, with foliate decoration to the capitals, frieze and upper shafts; a balcony balustrade, with twisted shafts to the balusters, alternated with panels of intricate floral and foliate motifs; and, belonging to the ceiling of the gallery level, relief mouldings above and belonging to the surface of the cove. Some annotations. Signed and dated with scale bar.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for Library (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil drawing with pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Brief description
Design for Victoria and Albert Museum by John Liddell, art library (decoration), 1866
Physical description
Pencil drawing with pen and ink and a broken line of watercolour, on paper backed with linen. Concerning the ornamentation of the proposed art library, this sheet shows sections and elevations of decorative mouldings and ironwork for the first and gallery levels (see also E.1027-1030-1927). Chiefly, it shows a round-headed arcade for the first floor, with foliate decoration to the capitals, frieze and upper shafts; a balcony balustrade, with twisted shafts to the balusters, alternated with panels of intricate floral and foliate motifs; and, belonging to the ceiling of the gallery level, relief mouldings above and belonging to the surface of the cove. Some annotations. Signed and dated with scale bar.
Dimensions
  • Width of paper width: 20.75in
  • Height of paper height: 27.625in
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927, London: Board of Education, 1928.
Collection
Accession number
E.1031-1927

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