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Grinling Gibbons British, born The Netherlands
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Title: Design for a chimney-piece with displays of porcelain on the overmantel and above the fire surround, and with draped upholstery across the overmantel
Artist:
Grinling Gibbons (British (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1648–1721 London)
Date: 1689-1694
Culture: Dutch
Medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite under-drawing, with grey-brown, yellow ochre and pink wash; on laid paper, with pinkish-brown blotching, staining and corrosion in top 50mm of sheet; 468 x 284
Dimensions:
Height: 18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm)
Length: 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm)
Frame: 25 1/16 × 17 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (63.6 × 43.8 × 3.2 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: By Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum, London
