Wallpainting
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paint and plaster
Collection
Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
NT 495082
Summary
Donor's flat wallpaintings: These paintings depict three sides of a room in which a number of details are still clearly visible, including an angel, a sunburst, a sacred monogram with Hebrew letters and the arms of the Dryden and Cope families. To the left and right of the painting are an uncertain number of figures, thought to be all women on the right and all men on the left. The wall clock is of particular importance as it shows, in a funerary monument style, the line of inheritance. This is similar in style to that depicted in Hans Holbein’s painting ‘Family of Sir Thomas More’.
Provenance
Part of the fixtures and fittings of the House transferred from the Dryden's to the National Trust in 1980/81