Domestic Architecture- East view of a room on the first floor of Sir Paul Pindar's Bishopgate Sytreet. Drawn in June...
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
290 x 215 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636843.10
Summary
Print, etching, Domestic Architecture- East view of a room on the first floor of Sir Paul Pindar's Bishopgate Sytreet. Drawn in June... by John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833). One of a set of ten etchings by J.T.Smith of Sacred and Domestic Architecture in black gilt frames with similar mounts; each engraving apppended with a descriptive text and date of drawing. j) 'Domestic Architecture- East view of a room on the first floor of Sir Paul Pindar's Bishopgate Sytreet. Drawn in June'(year obscured by mount). Further details given. A complex fireplace facing, with terminal supporters, a frieze of a stag hunt and a plaster overmantel depicting Atlas and Hercules dated 1600. Complex strapwork ceiling. No furnishings.
Provenance
1944, gifted to the National Trust by Field Marshal Sir Archibald and Lady Montgomery Massingberd.
Makers and roles
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833), engraver (printmaker)