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Drawing, Design for the Decoration of the Saloon, Royal Pavillion, Brighton
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederick Crace. It is dated ca. 1815 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on multiple sheets white wove paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This watercolor records the Brighton saloon as designed in 1802, with blue and silver Chinese or Chinese-inspired hand-painted wallpaper simulating a garden arbor. It has been suggested that this drawing was executed after the ceiling painting and draperies had been removed, prior to the room’s renovation by Robert Jones in 1822. An exotic water-lily chandelier has been collaged onto the watercolor, perhaps to illustrate the fixture proposed for the new renovation.
Label chat for House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
Its dimensions are
(a): 52.7 x 34.6cm (20 3/4 x 13 5/8in.) (b): 21.1 x 13.7 cm (8 5/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermarks: 1948-40-25a: Read from verso, upside-down, center below upper edge: J WHATMAN /1815; 1948-40-25b: Read from verso, upside down: JWH/18 wove paper (kb)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for the Decoration of the Saloon, Royal Pavillion, Brighton; Frederick Crace (English, 1779–1859); England; brush and watercolor, graphite on multiple sheets white wove paper ; (a): 52.7 x 34.6cm (20 3/4 x 13 5/8in.) (b): 21.1 x 13.7 cm (8 5/16 x 5 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1948-40-25-a,b
