Lot 133
TWO DESIGNS FOR CEILINGS, BY GEORGE RICHARDSON (SCOTTISH CIRCA 1738-1813)
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One | Wed 12th Nov at 10am | Lots 1 to 338
Description
both pencil scale drawings on paper of octagonal Neoclassical ceiling designs, heightened in watercolour, with scales to the bottom edge, both framed (2)
Dimensions
65cm high, 46.5cm wide [Including frame]
Footnote
Richardson began life as a draughtsman in the office of Robert and James Adam, and accompanied James Adam on his Grand Tour from 1760 to 1763, it was here that Richardson gained first hand knowledge of the antique sources that were to form the basis of the Adam style. The Yale Collection for British Art hold another comparable original design, possibly an unused design for A Collection of Ceilings, published in 1776 [see acc. no. B1975.2.674].
Literature
Richardson, George, A Collection of Ceilings, Decorated in The Style Of The Antique Grotesque, London 1776