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Drawing

1930s (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Support height: 54.6cm
  • Support width: 77.9cm
  • Drawing height: 49.3cm
  • Drawing width: 69.7cm
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
Subject depicted
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.
Collection
Accession number
E.641-1999

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Record createdMarch 1, 2000
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