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Interior of a Library
Unknown1830s–1840s
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The swagged pelmet on a pole and tieback draperies in the rear of this library suggest the Regency period. The prints on the fireplace wall on the right show people in academic or clerical robes. Bookcases line the left wall, where a lower cabinet door is ajar. Nearby, a library ladder, desk and books piled on the floor reveal that this room is a working library, possibly belonging to an Oxford don.
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Details
- Title: Interior of a Library
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1830s–1840s
- Type: Watercolor
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor and graphite on paper
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection
- Paper Support: Paper
- 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: 21.3 x 31.6 cm (8 3/8 x 12 7/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Charlotte Gere and Floramae McCarron-Cates, " House Proud, From Amateur to Professional and from Grand to Comfortable, " in 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), 57-58, fig. 42; 98, pl. 28.
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