1816
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View of the Cupola Room is a 1816 by William Kent, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A hand-finished aquatint print depicts the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace, its ceiling rendered in trompe l’oeil to mimic coffered Roman architecture with a central Garter Star. The space, designed by William Kent in the 1720s under King George I, reflects an Imperial Roman aesthetic despite lacking a unified decorative theme. Figures not present in the original watercolour appear in the print, added during the aquatint reproduction process. The image is one of one hundred interior views produced for William Pyne’s multi-volume survey of royal residences in 1816.
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William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary…
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