The elaborately-carved classical-style white marble mantelpiece by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, in the Library at Gorhambury, a large country house built between 1777 and 1784

Date:
29 Aug 1975
Location:
Gorhambury, St. Michael, Gorhambury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Reference:
BB75/05236
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The fireplace is composed of eighteenth century and antique elements; the central relief panel depicting a Sacrifice to Heracles dates from the first century AD. Gorhambury boasts another mantelpiece by Piranesi, located in the Yellow Drawing Room.

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

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Artist: Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Photographer: Rchme

Keywords

Classicism, Fireplace, Mantelpiece