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George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853
George Pyne1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
This view is one of two by the artist depicting an undergraduate's room (probably in Christ Church) at Oxford College. The room features a green patterned carpet; printed slipcovered seating furniture and matching curtains; a large table covered with a green tablecloth; and framed watercolors lining the walls. A view into an adjoining room is seen through the open door at the center rear.
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- Title: George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853
- Creator: George Pyne
- Creator Lifespan: 1800/1884
- Date Created: 1853
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor over graphite heightened with touches of bodycolor
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1997, lot 112; James Henry Royds (1908-1997), grandson of George James Drummond, thence by descent
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.
- Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)Sheet: 20.8 x 30.3 cm (8 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson et al., House Proud, Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 51, fig. 31; 119, pl. 53.Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989), 298-299 (Illus.).N.B.: The passage and illustrations cited refer to related works attributed to George Pyne.
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