Design for a chimney-piece with displays of porcelain on the overmantel and above the fire surround, and with draped upholstery across the overmantel

Grinling Gibbons British, born The Netherlands
1689-1694
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Design for a chimney-piece with displays of porcelain on the overmantel and above the fire surround, and with draped upholstery across the overmantel
  • Artist: Grinling Gibbons (British (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1648–1721 London)
  • Date: 1689-1694
  • Culture: Dutch
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite under-drawing, with grey-brown, yellow ochre and pink wash; on laid paper, with pinkish-brown blotching, staining and corrosion in top 50mm of sheet; 468 x 284
  • Dimensions: Height: 18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm)
    Length: 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm)
    Frame: 25 1/16 × 17 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (63.6 × 43.8 × 3.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: By Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum, London
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts