Wall Elevation with a Fireplace for Hyde Park

Ogden Codman, Jr.

1898 (?) · Watercolor and graphite, heightened in white · Drawings and Prints

Design for a wall elevation in neoclassical style with a fireplace at center and painting above, flanked by wall panels with colorful candelabra grotesques. To the right, part of a window bay is depicted and combined with a section detailing its construction. A slim blue and white frieze with griffins lines the top of the wall, and the arched transition to the ceiling is decorated with a frieze and octagonal medallions containing classical scenes in white on a red ground, surrounded by gilt vegetal tendrils.

Artist

Ogden Codman, Jr.

Date

1898 (?)

Medium

Watercolor and graphite, heightened in white

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Estate of Ogden Codman, 1951