Sketches for a bow window to the Library at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
The Hon. Thomas Liddell (1800-1856)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
1840 (before)
Materials
Pencil
Measurements
284 x 225 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206237
Summary
The Hon. Thomas Liddell (1800-1856). Sketches for a bow window to the Library at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, before 1840, inscribed 'Library [word underlined] - bookcases painted oak up to cornice line', pencil (284 x 225mm)
Full description
These sketches appear to propose the replacement of the canted bay at the northern end of the library wing with a semi-circular bow, capped by a hemi-dome cupola. The sketch at top right suggests a curtaining arrangement within the bow. Catalogue entry adapted from David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007
Provenance
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1799 - 1873); bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3000 acres.
Marks and inscriptions
Top: Library [word underlined] - bookcases painted oak up to cornice line
Makers and roles
The Hon. Thomas Liddell (1800-1856), architect
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.120, no. 244