Laid-out plan for the South Drawing Room at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Rattee & Kett (1855 - 1926)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
1856 (or later)
Materials
Pen and ink with pencil
Measurements
297 x 405 mm
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206249
Summary
Rattee & Kett. Laid-out plan for the South Drawing Room at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, 1856 or later, inscribed in pencil 'Small Drawing Room No.2 from Hall', pen and ink with pencil (297 x 405mm), watermark: J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1856
Full description
What may be a proposed picture hang, or a record of an existing hang, is shown very faintly in pencil on the south, east and west walls. Two pier glasses are shown on the north wall. 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 right corner: Small Drawing Room No.2 from Hall [in pencil] Watermark: J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1856
Makers and roles
Rattee & Kett (1855 - 1926), designer previously catalogued as by W. Bradwell, draughtsman
References
Adshead 2007: David Adshead, Wimpole Architectural drawings and topographical views, The National Trust, 2007, p.129, no. 275