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The Interior of the Chinese Room, Looking toward the Conservatory, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
William Alfred Delamotte1840
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The exotic motifs in this Chinese room show the popularity of chinoiserie decoration in the Regency period. The walls are hung with Chinese painted paper bordered in blue and decorated with Chinese characters. Bamboo furniture, the Chinese pane in the transom above the doorway to the conservatory, and the japanned door are also examples of Regency Chinese taste.
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- Title: The Interior of the Chinese Room, Looking toward the Conservatory, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
- Creator: William Alfred Delamotte
- Creator Lifespan: 1775/1863
- Date Created: 1840
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor, gouache and gold paint, graphite on white wove paper
- Signed: Lower left, in gold paint: 1840/ W. A. D.
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Christopher Wood Gallery, London
- Paper Support: White wove 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.New York, NY, Frick Museum. An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections, 1992.London, Christopher Wood Gallery. Annual Summer Exhibition of Fine English Watercolors and Drawings, 1990, No. 45 [Illus.].
- Dimensions: Old frame H x W x D: 42.5 x 48.3 x 3.8 cm (16 3/4 x 19 x 1 1/2 in.)Sheet: 24.5 x 31.3 cm (9 5/8 x 12 5/16 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), 46-47, fig. 23; 97, fig. 27.Charlotte Gere, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992), 58-59 [Illus.].Christopher Wood Gallery, Annual Summer Exhibition of Fine English Watercolors and Drawings (London: 1990), no. 45 [Illus.].Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989), 234 [Illus.].
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