Design for an Oblong Plaster Ceiling, George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813, Brush and wash, black and gray chalk on paper, Horizontal format design for an oblong plaster ceiling. Rosettes in the four corners. In the center is an ovoidal wreath formed by twigs within which are slopes formed by a garland. In the center is an urn, crossed, a thyrsus and a shepherd’s staff. The field is a rectangle, with parts of rosettes in the corners and tangent oblongs outside. They are decorated with two empty oblongs, laterally, and with a frieze of intertwined circles and segments with rosettes. Below the scale; “Feet.” Two framing lines., London, England, 1780–90, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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Design, Oblong Plaster Ceiling, George Richardson, British, ca, 1736 - 1813, Brush, wash, black, gray chalk, paper, Horizontal format design, oblong plaster ceiling, Rosettes, four corners, center, ovoidal wreath formed, twigs within, slopes formed, garland, center, urn, crossed, thyrsus, shepherd’s staff, field, rectangle, parts, rosettes, corners, tangent oblongs outside, decorated, two empty oblongs, laterally, frieze, intertwined circles, segments, rosettes, scale, Feet. Two framing lines, London, England, 1780–90, architecture, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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