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The Dance of the Hours, the Seasons, Aurora, the Goddess of Morning, and the Figure of Night

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Represented work of art

Dimensions2.793 (110 inches diameter)

Subject

decorative wall components

Provenance

Commissioned by George Grenville 1 Marquis of Buckingham, 1788 for the Music Room at Stow; Collection. David Style, His sale, Wateringbury, Christie's, 1 June 1978 (352)

Publication history

Briton and Brayley, Beauties of England, 1800; Michael Gibbon, A Forgotten Italian at Stowe, Country Life, August 1966 (p. 261);

Current owner Stowe House

Photographic source

Object FormatPhotographic Print

Photograph Source A.C. Cooper Studio

Negative Number903612

Archival context

Object numberPA-F00097-0003

Archival context

Fonds:Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive
Series:Decorative Painting
Folder:Stowe House
Item:The Dance of the Hours, the Seasons, Aurora, the Goddess of Morning, and the Figure of Night

ClassificationsArchival Document

Scope and content This series comprises a small group of images focused exclusively on decorative painting. Images are organised by location, as follows: · London and UK, various individual houses (6 boxes) · Greenwich (1 box) · Ham House (1 box) · Hampton Court (1 box) · Kensington Palace (1 box) · London churches (1 box) · Wallington (1 box) · Whitehall (1 box). Photographs used in the publication of Early Georgian Interiors by John Cornforth (London: Yale University Press, 2004) are also included in this series.

Acquisition information The collection has always been in the possession of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (or its predecessor institution, the Paul Mellon Foundation).

ArrangementThe archive has been arranged in its original order.

Conditions governing use The images in the Photographic Archive are derived from a variety of sources, so copyright in the collection is varied. The copyright status of each image is detailed at item level in the catalogue.

Accruals It is anticipated that new images may be added to the Centre’s Photographic Archive in future. These may be generated via the Centre’s everyday activities (such as the publishing programme). They may also come from external sources (such as donations by scholars or institutions).

Related material in Collected Archives The Collected Archives at the Paul Mellon Centre – particularly the Ellis Waterhouse, Frank Simpson, Oliver Millar and John Hayes collections – contain significant volumes of images of works by British Artists. The catalogues can be searched online at: http://calmview.co.uk/PaulMellonCentre/CalmView/advanced.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog. Artist Guides are also available at: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/archives-and-library/artist-subject-guides.

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