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Design for the South Wall of the Music Room
Frederick Craceca. 1817
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Elevation of the south wall, with the wall decoration composed of a large central panel of a seascape, with a pagoda and trees to left and right, terminated at top by winged dragons in low relief. The scene is flanked by painted columns entwined by serpents. Narrower sections of wall on either side contain painted panels of bamboo trees.Original album associated with this collection still exists. See 1948-40-1 accessory
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- Title: Design for the South Wall of the Music Room
- Creator: Frederick Crace
- Creator Lifespan: 1779/1859
- Date Created: ca. 1817
- Physical Dimensions: w495 x h310 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- Medium: Brush and gouache, graphite on cream wove paper
- Provenance: Katherine Gregory, New York
- Paper Support: Cream wove paper
- Markings: Watermark: Read from Recto, lower edge: SMITH & ALINSimilar to -10
- Exhibitions: Brighton, England -The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Regency Festival. Summer 1951.Louisville, KY-Allen R. Hite Institute, University of Louisville, The Brighton Pavilion. January 4-29, 1955.New York-CHNDM, Design for Life: A Centennial Celebration. September 30, 1997 to January 11, 1998.New York, CHNDM, The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource. March 26, 1991 to August 30, 1992, rotation 2: July 8 to December 2, 1991.New York-The Brooklyn Museum, 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.Cincinnati, OH-The Taft Museum, Chinoiserie. October 5 to December 2, 1979.London, England-Victoria and Albert Museum, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design -- Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, June 13 to August 12, 1973.Princeton, NJ-The Art Museum, Princeton University, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, April 15 to May 11, 1969.New York - CHNDM, A Stately Pleasure Dome, September 23 to November 12, 1969.New York, Cooper Union Museum, Designers' Repertoire, May 22 to August 31, 1967.
- Dimensions: 31 x 49.5 cm (12 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: Connoisseur CXXVI, no. 519, January 1951, p. 199.Victoria and Albert Museum. An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design -- Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, cat. no. 49 rep., p. 24.Morley, John. The Making of the Royal Pavilion Brighton, Designs and Drawings. London: Sotheby Publications, 1984, cat. no. 244, ill. no. 251, p. 211. Aldrich, Megan. "The Furniture of J. G. Crace & Son. Antiques, June 1991, vol. 139, no. 6, p. 1141.Strong, Roy. "Rêves d'Orient: Le Royal Pavilion de Brighton." FMR, no.85, April 2000: 27-62.
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