Design for Ornaments for the Pannells in the Staircase Ceiling at Felbrigg
James Paine the Elder (bap. c.1717 - 1789)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
circa 1752
Materials
Ink and paper
Measurements
318 x 197 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1403424.26
Summary
An architectural drawing. James Paine the elder. Design for Ornaments for the Pannells in the Staircase Ceiling at Felbrigg, c.1752. Pen and black ink, grey wash, inscriptions in brown ink.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Marks and inscriptions
Ornaments for the pannels in the Staircase Ceiling / at Felbrigg NB the festoons must be oak leaves & the work raised very high or / it will not be seen at so Great a Distance [crown and shield, britannia] PRO PATRIA EIUSQUE LIBERTATE
Makers and roles
James Paine the Elder (bap. c.1717 - 1789), architect