Design for a ceiling
Michael Henry Spang (fl.c.1750 - d.London 1762)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
1758
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
310 x 490 mm
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 109248
Summary
Watercolour design for a ceiling with a naval theme, possibly intended for the present Drawing Room or a Map Room (not executed) at Kedleston. Signed: "MH Spang fecit 1758". Scale in black ink below drawing. Watermark: Strasbourg lily; countermark: I Villedary.
Provenance
Created by Michael Henry Spang for Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale. By descent to Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale. Acquired by gift as part of the transfer of Kedleston Hall to the National Trust in 1987.
Marks and inscriptions
Recto, bottom right corner.: Signed in ink: "MH Spang fecit 1758" Recto, below drawing: Annotation in pencil by ?Lord Curzon: "Ceiling of Map Room? (Spang)"
Makers and roles
Michael Henry Spang (fl.c.1750 - d.London 1762), sculptor