West Wycombe Park: west portico: design of entablature, frieze and base for the inner face of the portico
Nicholas Revett, c.1770
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
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- Annotations and measurements included
Footnotes
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Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett and William Pars, Ionian Antiquities, London: Society of Dilettanti, 1769, vol. 1, ch. 1, pl. 6.
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Description
This drawing is similar to a detail from the Teos temple included in Ionian Antiquities; not as executed.1