West Wycombe Park: west portico: doorcase mouldings for portico
Nicholas Revett, c.1770
Nicholas Revett, West Wycombe Park: west portico: doorcase mouldings for portico
Photo courtesy of Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- West Wycombe
- Title(s)
- West Wycombe Park: west portico: doorcase mouldings for portico
- Date
- c.1770
- Location
- Unframed, in Library, location 240 on Dashwood list, AP 51
- Medium and support
- Ink and pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 49 cm, Overall width: 63 cm
- Artist
- Nicholas Revett (1720-1804)
- Catalogue Number
- WW32
- Inscription
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- Measurement added. Inscriptions: ‘Cornice of the Doors’, ‘The Plan of the Beads at the Angles’
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Description
The design is derived from the cornice of the pediment at the Temple of Athene Polias at Priene, Turkey, also covered by Revett in Ionian Antiquities.