Live Auction 10713Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
English school, 19th Century
Lot 265

English school, 19th Century

A cloth-bound album of ten architectural studies, including five sheets of designs for overmantles, and five for mirrors, the sheets laid onto album pages

Closed9 December 2015

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English school, 19th Century
A cloth-bound album of ten architectural studies, including five sheets of designs for overmantles, and five for mirrors, the sheets laid onto album pages
variously inscribed on the drawings and the album pages
pencil, pen and ink and wash, heightened with touches of bodycolour
the album sheets 14 ¾ x 11 in. (37.5 x 28 cm.); the drawings 14 1/8 x 10 ½ in. (36 x 26.7 cm.); and smaller
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Specialist note

We are grateful to Charlotte Gere for suggesting that these drawings were drawn up  by a company like Wright and Maitland, leading 18th century revivalist furniture makers in the 1880’s. Many of the drawings are annotated in code for a decorating firm and are evidently intended for large urban dwellings.