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Architectural Drawing

c.1720 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Thorpe Hall (made)

This is a pen, ink, and wash drawing in elevation on paper of doors, a door-case and panelling in the former Little Parlour of Thorpe Hall. Thorpe Hall was a mansion built in 1653-1656 during the Commonwealth period by Peter Mills for the Lord Chief Justice Oliver St. John.


Object details

Categories
Architecture
Architectural Fittings
Drawings
Designs
Object type
Architectural drawing
Materials and techniques
Pen, ink, and wash on paper
Pen and Ink
Wash
Drawn
Brief description
Drawing, pen, ink, and wash, elevation drawing of doors, door-case, and panelling in the former Little Parlour of Thorpe Hall, English, ca.1720.
Physical description
Pen, ink, and wash drawing in elevation on paper of doors, a door-case and panelling in the former Little Parlour of Thorpe Hall. The illustration depicts unadorned panelling with minimal detailed carving found only at the centre and tops of doors and in the moulding near the ceiling. A scale and some notes are inscribed below the drawing.
Dimensions
  • Width: 39.75cm
  • Length: 28cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • scale (Inscribed in the left side below the drawing.)
  • 'Drawing of doors, a door-case and panelling in teh former Little (or Inner) Parlour (later the Dining-Room) of Thorpe Hall, Longthorpe, Northamptonshire, English, c. 1720.' (Inscribed on the back of the exterior mount, not written on the drawing itself.)
  • 'one side of ye Littl Parlour' (Written below the drawing at the centre.)
  • 'one End of yet Little Parlour att Thorpe with ye door into yet Withdrawing-room.' (Written on the back of the drawing.)
  • 'For photograph of the work as extant see Plate 61-63 in the article on Thorpe hall in English Homes, Period IV Vol. I by H. Avray Tipping, London, 1920. (Note included on the back of the external mounting, not written on the drawing itself.)
Subjects depicted
Door
Panelling
Moulding
Place depicted
Thorpe Hall
Summary
This is a pen, ink, and wash drawing in elevation on paper of doors, a door-case and panelling in the former Little Parlour of Thorpe Hall. Thorpe Hall was a mansion built in 1653-1656 during the Commonwealth period by Peter Mills for the Lord Chief Justice Oliver St. John.
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
D.413-1885

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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