Architecture.- Richardson (George, Scottish architectural and decorative draftsman, ca. 1738-1813)Pair of octagonal neoclassical ceiling designs, brush and ink, pen and ink, watercolour, heightened with white, some pencil under-drawing, pen and ink scale to lower section, sections numbered, on cream laid paper with watermarks of Strasbourg Lily, each sheet approx. 545 x 375 mm (21 x 14 3/4 in), minor nicks to extremities, handling creases, light browning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1770-1800]
⁂ Probably a print study intended to be engraved for Richardson's 'A Book Of Ceilings, Composed In The Style Of The Antique Grotesque', published in 1776. The Yale Collection for British Art hold another comparable original design [see acc. no. B1975.2.674].
Architecture.- Richardson (George, Scottish architectural and decorative draftsman, ca. 1738-1813)Pair of octagonal neoclassical ceiling designs, brush and ink, pen and ink, watercolour, heightened with white, some pencil under-drawing, pen and ink scale to lower section, sections numbered, on cream laid paper with watermarks of Strasbourg Lily, each sheet approx. 545 x 375 mm (21 x 14 3/4 in), minor nicks to extremities, handling creases, light browning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1770-1800]
⁂ Probably a print study intended to be engraved for Richardson's 'A Book Of Ceilings, Composed In The Style Of The Antique Grotesque', published in 1776. The Yale Collection for British Art hold another comparable original design [see acc. no. B1975.2.674].
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