Drawing
1930s (designed)
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This is a design for a mock baronial dining hall. The room is therefore an imitation of a grand dining hall such as might have existed in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century country house. Designed by the architect, Robert Tumelty, who worked in Manchester, it dates to the 1930s. It is a perspective drawing showing a timbered ceiling, a wooden floor with a carpet and reproduction Renaissance furniture in friont of a fireplace. A French window is ajar onto a garden.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Design for a 1930s mock baronial dining hall by Robert L.Tumelty |
| Physical description | Perspective drawing showing a timbered ceiling, a wooden floor with a carpet and reproduction Renaissance furniture in front of a fireplace. A French window is ajar onto the garden. The drawing is on a large, rectangular sheet of paper stuck to a brown piece of cardboard. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '44 SPRING GARDENS DIDSBURY 4613 DIDSBURY MANCHESTER. / ROBERT L. TUMELTY / D.A. (Manc.) L.S.I.A. / A.I.B.D., N. R. D. / Commercial design / Industrial design' (Signature; On a label on the centre back of the backing board.; Printing; Ink) |
| Credit line | Given by Stephen Calloway |
| Production | 44 Spring Gardens, Didsbury |
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| Summary | This is a design for a mock baronial dining hall. The room is therefore an imitation of a grand dining hall such as might have existed in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century country house. Designed by the architect, Robert Tumelty, who worked in Manchester, it dates to the 1930s. It is a perspective drawing showing a timbered ceiling, a wooden floor with a carpet and reproduction Renaissance furniture in friont of a fireplace. A French window is ajar onto a garden. |
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| Accession number | E.641-1999 |
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| Record created | March 1, 2000 |
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