Design for Library Ceiling, Benton House, Northumberland, England
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format design for a plaster ceiling. Outside are oblong and pentagonal panels, the latter in the corners framed by an interlacing band. The pentagons are decorated with two panels each, those at left with oblongs and pentagons. Most panels show plant candelabra. The oblongs in the center of the long sides show rinceau motifs, the irregular tetragons show disks above crossed branches.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1940-21-12
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 watercolor, pen and ink, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.2 x 44.2 cm (12 11/16 x 17 3/8 in.)