Murals

NOTES: This drawing comes from a sketchbook consisting of 22 folios with 6 loose sheets numbered 15A-15F. Folios 1-13 are pattern studies for painted wall designs, none executed. Folio 14 was painted on the wall in the basement flat of No. 4 Russell Road, in Oliver Cox's own room. Folios 15-19 are studies for the painted wall in the dining room at St Crispin's Secondary Modern School, Wokingham, Berkshire (1953). Folio 15F is almost as executed and painted by Oliver Cox. St Crispin's School was the first school built by the Ministry of Education's architectural team. Folio 20 verso is a topographical view of a Regency house in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; folio 21 verso of Penzance lighthouse, Cornwall; and folio 22 verso of Penzance harbour.

NOTES: Lonsdale, among others, was employed by William Burges to prepare designs for the complete interior of Cardiff Castle. In the Winter Smoking Room of the Clock Tower Lonsdale contributed murals of the origins of music and dancing. However this design, depicting a woman playing the lute, although previously catalogued as for Cardiff, is believed by Matthew Williams, Curator of the Castle, to be for Mount Stuart, Lord Bute's seat in Scotland. It is also much later than the previously assumed date of c.1870.

NOTES: The college buildings incorporate Furzedown House a mansion of c. 1800 altered in 1862 by its owner Philip Flower. When built it was intended that the mural be infilled with mirror glass by the students.

NOTES: The college buildings incorporate Furzedown House a mansion of c. 1800 altered in 1862 by its owner Philip Flower. When built it was intended that the mural be infilled with mirror glass by the students.

NOTES: The painting in the tympanum of the Virgin and Child has the date MDLXIIII (1564) around the edge. The door has two carved eagles in the two central panels, which are symbols of St John.

NOTES: Here the walls were panelled in coromandel lacquer of deep brown-red with gilt overlay, and depicted hunting scenes. The grand staircase can be seen in the background. At the head of the staircase was the statue of 'La Normandie' by Baudry.

NOTES: The Grand Salon may have been the ship's most palatial room; it was initially compared to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Below the 31-foot-tall ceiling were four glass-relief murals, each more than 20 feet tall and about 30 feet wide, made up of about a hundred individual panels. They depicted the ancient gods cavorting at sea, with tall sailing ships in the background. The French architect Roger-Henri Expert was in charge of the overall decorative scheme and the painter Jean Dupas designed the murals.