1706
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Design for a wall and ceiling painting, possibly for Chatsworth, Derbyshire is a 1706 by James Thornhill, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing Thornhill made for a wall or ceiling in a big house. The house might be Chatsworth in Derbyshire. He drew it around 1706 as a plan for painted scenes. The Duke of Devonshire hired Thornhill to paint many rooms, so this could be one of them. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of Thornhill’s work.
A pen-and-ink drawing with grey wash, this sheet presents a design for a painted wall below and a ceiling above, possibly intended for Chatsworth. The composition includes a figure of Concord in a niche on the right, which resembles a detail later executed above the fireplace in the Sabine Room at Chatsworth. Thornhill worked at Chatsworth between 1707 and 1708 under the 1st Duke of Devonshire, though this sheet may relate to another, as yet unidentified, location.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Sir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.
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