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- Title:
- Headfort House, Ireland: Elevations of the Front Hall
- Additional Title(s):
- Design for Finishing the Four Sides of the Hall, for the Right Honorable Earl of Bective
- Date:
- between 1771 and 1775
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 36 1/8 x 23 15/16 inches (91.8 x 60.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: "Design for finishing the four sides of the Hall. For the Right Honorable The Earl of Bective."; in pen and brown ink, center, dimensions given; in pen and brown ink, lower center, scale labeled; on sheet attached to back of mount, lower left: "Section of my Hall-"; on back of sheet attached to back of mount, lower left: "Hall Design-"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.786
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | caryatids | chimney pieces | doors | elevation (drawing) | fireplace | friezes | Graces (Charites), generally three in number; 'Gratie' (Ripa) | grotesques | hall | Neoclassical | niches | scale (rule) | urns | windows
- Associated Places:
- Headfort House | Ireland | Kells | Leinster | Meath
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12194
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