West Wycombe

West Wycombe

West Wycombe Park: west portico: design of entablature, frieze and base for the inner face of the portico

Nicholas Revett, c.1770

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Nicholas Revett, West Wycombe Park: west portico: design of entablature, frieze and base for the inner face of the portico

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Details

Country House
West Wycombe
Title(s)
West Wycombe Park: west portico: design of entablature, frieze and base for the inner face of the portico
Date
c.1770
Location
Unframed, in Library, location 240 on Dashwood list, AP 38, Witt 941/8 (5, 7)
Medium and support
Pen and wash with pencil under-drawing on paper
Dimensions
Overall height: 48.4 cm, Overall width: 34 cm
Artist
Nicholas Revett (1720-1804)
Catalogue Number
WW30
Inscription
  • Annotations and measurements included

Description

This drawing is similar to a detail from the Teos temple included in Ionian Antiquities; not as executed.1

by Clare Hornsby

Footnotes

  1. Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett and William Pars, Ionian Antiquities, London: Society of Dilettanti, 1769, vol. 1, ch. 1, pl. 6.

    1

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