FAMAG 1000.24
Late seventeenth-/early eighteenth-century plain Neapolitan 'Salvator Rosa' frames, with bold convex top edge, scotia, astragal and small ogee to sight; finished in grey-blue paint; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited. (r) Late seventeenth-/early eighteenth-century plain Neapolitan 'Salvator Rosa' frames, with bold convex top edge, scotia, astragal and small ogee to sight; finished in grey-blue paint; supplied by Paul Mitchell Limited. (r)
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John T.Richardson (c.1861-1942): Path from Cuckoo Mills to Swanpool, Falmouth, signed and dated 1909, oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cms. Back accession.
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The sculptural profile of these Baroque 'Salvator Rosa' frames presents the landscape to the viewer as though seen between the columns of some Greek temple in the grounds of a park. The strongly plastic lines of the moulding hold and contain the sharp recession of the two painted lanes, since there is no painted repoussoir (the traditional device of a tree or bush at the side of the picture, to set the middle ground and distance into a recognisable perspective). The colouring of the frame supports this optical device (the original of this frame was finished with silver leaf and lacquered to resemble a pale gold).