- Title:
Cobham Hall, Kent: Design for Windows
- Former Title(s):
Cobham Hall, Kent: Barn Windows
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Medium:
- Gray wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 x 17 inches (30.5 x 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "Top Coving"; in pen and black ink, center: "Cornice"; in pen and black ink, upper left: "Blank Window"; in pen and black ink, upper right: "Blank Window"; in pen and black ink, upper right: "Glass the Ould window just as they Plan"; in pen and black ink, lower right: "Glass the Ould Window"; in pen and black ink, lower center: "Blank window"; in pen and black ink, lower left: "These Windows of the North | Wing [...] Lord agree Except | With them Blank Windows | of the South Wing which | has a [...] | I hope your Lordship will | Escuse your Dutiful Humb | Ser.t | John Covell"; in pen and brown ink, lower left: "The Corner that returns | [...]"; in pen and black ink, upper left: "plan your Lordship this is just as Mr Shakespear Marked them Upon the Wall | please your Lordship weather this Windows in the Bow will give Light [...] for the Room"; in pen and black ink, throughout, dimensions given; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "(74/8/14/14) (26) | (IR 93)"
large watermark on the left; crest with text surrounding it; small watermark on the right: "GR"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.822
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cornices | plans (drawings) | windows
- Associated Places:
- Cobham | Cobham Hall | England | Kent | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13262
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James Wyatt, 1746–1813, British, Cobham Hall, Kent: Design for Windows, ca. 1790
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