Design for the Painted Decoration of the Walls and Ceiling of a Living Room
date: label: Date
content: 1820
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format design for the decoration of the walls and ceiling of a living room. A short wall with the ceiling over it is shown. The wall is divided by pilasters into two bays of a colonnade. The intercolumniations show arches with tympana with obliquely disposed ornamentation. Parts of the tympana and of the intercolumniations are covered by a kind of canopy of green cloth with fringed upper seams. The ceiling is to be divided into a great panel framed by bands. Framing black strip.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-8
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache, graphite on rough paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.4 × 25.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)