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An Exquisite Monumental Gold Ground Painted Panel By John Gregory Crace For The 1851 Great Exhibition, London.
English. Circa 1850.
Of oil and gouache on a gilded ground, on canvas. The unframed panel of arched form is centered by a painted Greek key framed roundel of Venus seated in a shell. The gilded ground is overpainted with burnt umber triangles upon which is painted a system of ornament including griffons, birds, putti, fruits and multicolored flowers and foliage. The outer border self-framed within a continuous Vitruvian scroll pattern. Inscription at the bottom added by Emie A. Shields in 1914.
Dimensions
Height: 317.5 cm; Width: 91.5 cm.Stock number
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