Architectural Drawing
18th century (made)
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Chambers was born in Sweden and died in London. He travelled widely, visiting China, and studied architecture at the Ecole des Arts, Paris, from 1749 and in Italy from 1750 to 1755. Many of his drawings from this period are contained in his important 'Franco-Italian' album, held in the V&A. Chambers moved to London in 1755 and published his influential Treatise on Civil Architecture in 1759. Chambers demonstrated the breadth of his style in buildings such as Gower (later Carrington) House and Melbourne House, London, in such country houses as Duddingston, Scotland, and in the garden architecture he designed for Wilton House, Wiltshire, and at Kew Gardens. He became head of government building in 1782, and in this capacity built Somerset House, London.
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink, pencil and green and grey washes |
| Brief description | Plan of a ceiling for 20 Grosvenor Square, Westminster for the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch; William Chambers. |
| Physical description | Plan of a ceiling for 20 Grosvenor Square, Westminster for the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch. This ceiling, like others from the ceiling pattern book is depicted as an antique fragment in ruin. It is divided up by guilloche-ornamented banding into a large central area with squares in the corners. From a tripod at each end of the ceiling issue stylized acanthus leaves that encircle a large reeded oval that almost fills the ceiling. A swirling rosette at the centre is surrounded by a band of laurel. The raised ornaments are white on the flat green ground. (Scale: I ¼ in. to 3ft.) |
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| Object history | Registered by the museum in 1857. |
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| Summary | Chambers was born in Sweden and died in London. He travelled widely, visiting China, and studied architecture at the Ecole des Arts, Paris, from 1749 and in Italy from 1750 to 1755. Many of his drawings from this period are contained in his important 'Franco-Italian' album, held in the V&A. Chambers moved to London in 1755 and published his influential Treatise on Civil Architecture in 1759. Chambers demonstrated the breadth of his style in buildings such as Gower (later Carrington) House and Melbourne House, London, in such country houses as Duddingston, Scotland, and in the garden architecture he designed for Wilton House, Wiltshire, and at Kew Gardens. He became head of government building in 1782, and in this capacity built Somerset House, London. |
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| Accession number | 2216:36 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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