Design for a chimney-piece with displays of porcelain on the overmantel and above the fire surround, and with draped upholstery across the overmantel
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Artwork Details
- 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