West Wycombe Park: west portico: design for ceiling of west portico
Nicholas Revett, c.1771

Nicholas Revett, West Wycombe Park: west portico: design for ceiling of west portico
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Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- West Wycombe Park: west portico: design for ceiling of west portico
- Date
- c.1771
- Location
- Framed, hanging in the First Floor Passage, location 231 on Dashwood list, AP 41, Witt 941/3 (28)
- Medium and support
- Ink and wash on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 22 cm, Overall width: 40 cm
- Artist
- Nicholas Revett (1720-1804)
- Catalogue Number
- WW33
- Inscription
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- Inscription: ‘the Ceiling of the Portico’. Measurements in ink and calculations in pencil
Footnotes
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Robert Wood, The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart, London, 1753.
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Description
This ceiling – an overall design of discs with central rosettes (here with three large paintings inset) – is derived from Robert Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra (1753), pl. 37.1