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The Fishing Temple, Virginia Water
Frederick Craceca. 1825
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. A large pavilion in the Chinese style. An open porch across the facade, its roof decorated with carved dragon finials and hung with bells. The flat roof is surmounted by three pagoda-like domes, with carved finials hung with bells. Trees to right and left.Original album associated with this collection still exists. See 1948-40-1 accessory
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- Title: The Fishing Temple, Virginia Water
- Creator: Frederick Crace
- Creator Lifespan: 1779/1859
- Date Created: ca. 1825
- Physical Dimensions: w421 x h321 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- Medium: Brush and watercolor gouache, gold tempera on paper
- Provenance: Katherine Gregory
- Markings: Stamps: Cooper Union Museum stamp on verso [Lugt 457e]
- Inscribed: Lower right: Fishing temple, Virginia water
- Exhibitions: New York Botanical Gardens, New York. Grottos and Gazebos. September 1955 to February 1956.College of Education, School of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Eighteenth Century Architectural Drawings. April 22 to May 14, 1965.Armory (Park Avenue), New York. Armory: Winter Antiques Show, Salute to Cooper-Hewitt Museum. January 21-30, 1972Victoria and Albert Museum, London. An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design -- Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York. June 13 to August 12, 1973.The Brooklyn Museum, New York. The Art of Decoration, Drawings and Objects from the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum." December 18, 1973 to February 3, 1974. Victoria and Albert Museum catalog.Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany. Idee und Anspruch der Architektur. December 13, 1979 to January 27, 1980.
- Dimensions: 32.1 x 42.1 cm (12 5/8 x 16 9/16 in. )
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