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George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853
George Pyne1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
In this view, one of two by the artist depicting an undergraduate's room at Oxford College (probably in Christ Church), bright sun entering through two windows on the right casts a shadow on the furniture. Between the windows, a rococo cabinet is placed above a book cabinet. A window seat, valance and curtains are upholstered in the same fabric. A partial view of another building at Oxford College is seen through the rightmost window.
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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, gouache, graphite on white wove paper
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1997, lot 112(label with Thaw file); James Henry Royds (1908-1997), grandson of George James Drummond, then by descent.Label from back of frame: Martinspeed Limited, ref. 3533.
- 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: 21.5 x 30.8 cm (8 7/16 x 12 1/8 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. 32; 119, pl. 54.Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York: Harry N. Abrams, In. 1989), 298-299 (illus.).N.B.: The passages and illustrations cited refer to related works attributed to George Pyne.
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