Lord Charlemont's medal cabinet & 3 designs
Artist: Sir William Chambers (1723 - 1796)
Location: Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
Date: 1767 - 1768
Materials: cabinet: mahogany & sandalwood & boxwood & ebony & oak; drawings: pen & ink on paper
Dimensions: cabinet: 178 x 444 cm; drawings 11.45 x 29.15cm, 48.6 x 65cm, 49.9 x 65cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £325,000)
Vendor: Christopher Gibbs
Review number: 3221 (1987)
Provenance:
Commissioned by James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont for his Dublin town house; P J Walsh; Earl of Iveagh installed at Elvedon by 1895; Christie's, 1984. Christopher Gibbs.
Description:
The medal cabinet was designed to fill one wall of a room 444.5 wide by 365cm high with fireplace opening 177.8 x 143cm. Maker mostly Chippendale. Central panel representing Hercules Musarum, carved by Safferen Alken. Interior by Diederich Nicholas Anderson. Purchased with three original designs by William Chambers according to 2003 audit: 1) design for ormolu plaque in right-hand cabinet; 2) section of chimney side of study showing right half of cabinet; 3) and ornaments of the frieze, cornice and pilaster, and cross sections of the surface, pilasters and doors of cabinet.
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