Design for Alternate Chimney-Pieces
Creator(s): Grinling Gibbons 1648-1721
Date: Undated, but probably dating 1689-94
Accession Number: SM 110/42
Dimensions: 370mm x 234mm
Materials: Pen and brown ink over graphite under-drawing, with greenish brown wash; on smooth white laid paper
Location: Sir John Soane's Museum
Credit Line (copyright notice for material) : © Sir John Soane's Museum
Online Catalogue Entry : http://collections.soane.org/OBJECT284
NOTES ON THE ARTWORK
Design for alternate chimney-pieces. The trophy is similar to that on 110/26 [Design for Chimney-Piece with Trophy and Relief on this website]. The design may be preparatory for this grander chimney piece design, or could have been derived from it. The most obvious difference between the two designs is the absence in this drawing of any architectural or sculptural framing around the hearth.
Literature: D. Esterly, Gibbons, 1998, p. 132, fig. 106; Wren Society, IV, pl. 35, bottom.
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation.
Design for Alternate Chimney-Pieces © Sir John Soane's Museum
