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Design for Greenwich - West elevation of chapel, scheme of 1711

Maker

(artist)
1661-1736

Title

Date of Production

1711

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, executed using a ruler and compass

Dimensions

Height: 44.7 cm
Width: 34.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1961.XX.2.6

Mode of Acquisition

Geoffrey F. Webb, gift, 1960

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Hawksmoor designed at least three different schemes for a chapel at Greenwich, to be built south of the main naval hospital buildings. This and the drawing to the right represent two of these schemes, each drawn using different conventions of architectural draughtsmanship; this adheres less strictly to the conventions of elevation, since there is some suggestion of depth and a light source.

Notes

The chapel is designed to bridge the London-Dover road. An almost exact duplicate drawing is in the Clarke Collection, Worcester College, Oxford.

Provenance

John Edmund Gardner (1819-1899); by descent to his son; purchased from him en bloc by Major Sir Edward Coates (1853-1921), 1910; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 1-5 May 1924, probably lot 2232 (18 items); purchased there by B.T. Batsford (London) (£5.5 for all 18); purchased there by Professor Geoffrey Webb (1898-1970), circa 1927-28; Webb Gift 1960 Provenance detailed by Kerry Downes in the file for D.1961.XX.2.1.

Exhibition History

Hawksmoor, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 23/03/1977-01/05/1977

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Southampton, 16/02/1970-04/03/1970 ...More

Hawksmoor: an exhibition of models, drawings and recent photographs, organised in conjunction with the Hawksmoor Committee's campaign for preserving Christ Church, Spitalfields and St. Anne's, Limehouse, 4 St James's Square, London, 1962

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961 ...Less

Literature

Downes, Kerry, Hawksmoor, 1979; II
p95
ill. on p. 26b

Downes, Kerry, Hawksmoor, 1959
no. 354

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: cross above "IHS / IVIILLEDARY".

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: right lower edge (now hidden under handling edges), graphite: "1x / 6".

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