Beschreibung:

Collection of architectural studies by Charles Robert Cockerell principally for neo-classical chimney-pieces, many subscribed from his architectural studios at Savile Row in the 1820s, comprising some thirty-eight drawings and counterproofs as follows (listed in the order in which they have been tied): a counterproof of a chimney-piece with life-size moulding marked up in pencil; a counterproof for a chimney-piece and life-size moulding for Lough Crew with further details on verso (7 April 1826); studies of chimney-pieces in pencil and in pen-and-ink; counterproof of the drawing-room chimney-piece, Lough Crew (29 August 1828); pen-and-ink scale drawing of a chimney-piece touched in pencil; counterproof worked in wash of a library chimney-piece (23 August 1826); pencil and wash finished drawing of a library chimney-piece; matching pencil and wash finished drawing of a drawing-room chimney-piece; counterproof of chimney-piece details; wash over pen-and-ink life-size scaled drawing of chimney-piece mouldings (10 January 1828); preliminary freehand study in pen-and-ink over pencil for a chimney-piece freeze [for the dining-room, Grange Park], drawn on the verso of an address panel ("CR Cockerell Esq/ Architect/ Savile Row/ London"); pen-and-ink study on three sheets of paper of a chimney-piece and adjoining walls with an outline female figure in profile [for the dining-room, Grange Park, compare the very similar drawing, Watkin, pl.63] (August 1824); pencil studies of chimney-pieces and life-size moulding for "dressing Ro:" and "Mrs B's bed Ro:" [?i.e. Mrs Baring of Grange Park] chimney-pieces; pencil and pen-and-ink studies of a chimney-piece and life-size moulding for "Lady's Ro:" chimney-piece; finished pencil drawing of a library chimney-piece; pencil and pen-and-ink measured studies marked "No 15 The Grange Plan, Elevation & Section of Window in Bed Room Saville Row Octr 3rd 1823"; finished pencil study of a chimney-piece with classical frieze; counterproof marked "Profile of Pilaster cap and shelf to Chimney-piece full size" and "Profile of base of Pilaster full size"; measured pen-an-ink "Chimney-piece for the library of London House of vein Marble the shelf to have the same profile as that of dining-room, the Moulding to reveal of cap of pilaster & of pannel to be the same" (15 August 1820); free hand pencil studies of chimney-pieces, touched in ink, with pencil sketches of a chimney-piece marked "£150" on verso [presumably for Grange Park, see note below]; measured pencil study of a chimney-piece; freehand graphite study of two chimney-pieces touched in green wash; measured graphite study of a chimney-piece, touched in green wash; graphite study of two chimney-pieces touched in green, yellow and purple-grey washes; measured pencil study of a chimney-piece with life-size details of moulding; counterproof of a chimney-piece for Shadwell Rectory (1 April 1829); pen-and-ink finished drawing touched in washes of "Elevation of West side of Deputy Chairman's Room"; measured pen-and-ink "Drawings of Chimney-pieces at Travellers Club House" with life-size details of mouldings drawn freehand in pencil (11 April 1822); pen-and-ink measured drawing, finished in pencil, of a chimney-piece [Grange Park], (inscribed "ordered 20 March 1824, CRC"); two pencil studies, freehand and measured, of a chimney-piece; counterproof plan, elevation and section of the chimney-piece at Lynford Hall (9 February 1829); pen-and-ink measured drawing of a chimney-piece with life-size details of moulding; counterproof of life-size details of chimney-piece moulding for Lough Crew (7 April 1826); another counterproof of chimney-piece moulding for Lough Crew (22 March 1830); counterproof, worked over in pencil and washes, of the dining-room chimney-piece for Derry Ormond (inscribed "Drawing of Col &c sent to Mr Foster 8th Feby 1826"); pen-and-ink measured drawing, touched with orange wash, of the dining-room chimney-piece, Lynford Hall, with life-size detail