West Wycombe Park: interior decorations: design for a painted ceiling based on Bartoli
possibly Francis Dashwood, c.1740–60
possibly Francis Dashwood, West Wycombe Park: interior decorations: design for a painted ceiling based on Bartoli
Photo courtesy of Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- West Wycombe Park: interior decorations: design for a painted ceiling based on Bartoli
- Date
- c.1740–60
- Location
- Framed, hanging in the Study, location 080 on the Dashwood list, AP 194, Witt 941120 (62)
- Medium and support
- Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 17 cm, Overall width: 23 cm
- Artist
- possibly Francis Dashwood (1708-1781)
- Catalogue Number
- WW36
Footnotes
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Bernard de Montfaucon, L’Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, Paris, 1719–24, Supplément, vol. 3, 1724, pl. 60.
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Description
This drawing is a copy of part of a Francesco Bartoli drawing representing a ceiling from the Domus Transitoria on the Palatine Hill in Rome, now in the Topham Collection, Eton College Library, but probably copied from Dashwood’s copy of Montfaucon’s Antiquité expliquée.1 This was not used as the basis for any of the ceilings in the house.