Sculpted decorative medallion depicting Mercury and Minerva, a detail from the top-right of the classical-style mantelpiece designed by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi and located in the Yellow Drawing Room at Gorhambury

Date:: 29 Aug 1975

Location:: Gorhambury, St. Michael, Gorhambury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire

Reference:: BB75/05235

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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Description

This relief panel is sculpted in porphyry, a red stone. The rest of the fireplace is sculpted in white marble with four other porphyry sculpted reliefs. Gorhambury is a large country house built between 1777 and 1784. The house boasts another mantelpiece by Piranesi, located in the Library.

Archival History

Print accessioned into the collection of the NMR on the 18th September 1975.

Content

This is part of the Job: 11/02524A Gorhambury, Hertfordshire; within the Sub Series: RCH01/002/049 RCHME Architectural Requests: Hertfordshire; within the Series: RCH01/002 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Architectural Requests; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

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People & Organisations

Artist: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Photographer: Rchme

Keywords

Classicism, Fireplace, Mantelpiece, Sculpture