English School
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English School

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English School
Two designs for chimneypieces in the gothick style after B.& T. Langley
pencil, grey ink and grey wash, one fragmentary watermark
5½ x 7¼ in. (14 x 18.5 cm.); and 4½ x 5 3/8 in. (11.5 x 13.5 cm.) (2)
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Lot Essay

The first is a George II design for a chimneypiece with gothic pillars and fret-arcaded frieze enriched with foliage and corresponds to the architecture of an 'umbrello' garden-seat in B.& T.Langley's Ancient Architecture Restored, 1742 (pl.51). The latter also included a Chimneypiece pattern with gothic pointed arch (pl.41).
The second design is for a chimneypiece with pointed and foliated arch and also relates to a pattern in B.& T.Langley's Ancient Architecture Restored, 1742 (pl.42).
Two chimneypieces likely to have originated from the same source, are illustrated in P.Fuhring Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, 1989, vol.1, nos.427 and 428.

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