Design for a glazed cupboard for Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Rattee & Kett (1855 - 1926)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
circa 1856
Materials
Pencil and coloured wash
Measurements
565 x 425 mm
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206246
Summary
Rattee and Kett. Design giving the front and side elevations and plan for a glazed cupboard for Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, c.1856, pencil and coloured wash (565 x 425mm), watermark: J WHATMAN. A wall-mounted, glazed display cabinet with sliding doors, supported on four brackets with a scrolled pediment decorated with urns at the centre and ends. 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
Watermark: J WHATMAN
Makers and roles
Rattee & Kett (1855 - 1926)
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.129, no. 281