Design for Section of a Rococo Room, with a Coved Ceiling and Ornamented Corinthian Doorway
ca. 1750
Medium
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash and yellow watercolor
Dimensions
sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (27.3 x 36.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.557.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the lavish world of 18th-century British interiors with Thomas Lightoler's *Design for Section of aoco Room, with a Coved Ceiling and Ornamented Corinthian Doorway* (ca. 1750). This intricate drawing captures a cross-section of an opulent room, showcasing a curved coved ceiling that draws the eye upward and a grand Corinthian doorway framed by scrolling foliage, shells, and asymmetrical motifs—hallmarks of the Rococo style. Lightoler, an English architect and designer active in the mid-1700s, specialized in such playful yet elegant decorative schemes for country houses and urban salo...