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A candelabrum c. 1827-33
Pencil, watercolour | 31.8 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper) (sheet of paper) | RCIN 934801

Office of Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832)
A candelabrum c. 1827-33
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A watercolour showing a detailed view of a candelabrum, after RCIN 2694. A pair with RCIN 934800. A patinated bronze figure of a bacchante is shown holding a gilt bronze spirally-gadrooned cornucopia of fruit, emerging out of which are four S-shaped candle arms, arranged around one central straight arm. A gilt bronze tambourine is shown attached to the bacchante's waist to the right. The whole is shown supported by a circular marble base, decorated with gilt swags and bows. A single pen and ink line border is shown around the edge of the sheet.
The Pictorial Inventory consists of three volumes containing a total of 230 drawings. It was originally created as a pictorial record of the clocks, vases, candelabra and other miscellaneous items from Carlton House, as well as selected items from the stores at Buckingham House, Brighton Pavilion, Hampton Court and Kensington Palace to be considered for use in the refurbishment of Windsor Castle. Artists from an architectural drawing school run by Augustus Charles Pugin were employed by George IV’s supplier of furniture, Nicholas Morel, for this epic task. After Morel had finished using the drawings as an aid in creating his furniture schemes for Windsor Castle, the drawings were bound into three volumes and delivered to the King’s Inventory Clark, Benjamin Jutsham, where they assumed the role of an inventory. At some point in the nineteenth century, further drawings were added to the original 214 supplied by Morel. Many of the 230 drawings have been annotated by Jutsham or by a later hand and many inscriptions, including some signatures, have been erased. -
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Medium and techniques
Pencil, watercolour
Measurements
31.8 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper) (sheet of paper)
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RL 34801RL 33559BR