Port Lympne mural design

1930

By Rex Whistler

Watercolour on paper

Mural design for the Tent Room, Port Lympne, Kent. Commissioned by Sir Philip Sassoon. The view shows a Georgian townscape that includes a palladian bridge similar to that at Wilton House. Rex was a regular visitor to the Wilton Estate where his friend Edith Olivier lived.

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