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The Library at Dingestow
Charlotte Bosanquet1840s
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
In this view of the library at Dingestow, bookshelves, enclosed by square Corinthian columns and pilasters, line the walls. The frieze with classical busts above the shelves, panelled overmantel and tracery ceiling are inspired by the English Renaissance style of Henry VIII. The seating, slipcovered in red-and-white striped fabric, evokes a comfortable Victorian setting.
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- Title: The Library at Dingestow
- Creator: Charlotte Bosanquet
- Creator Lifespan: 1790/1852
- Date Created: 1840s
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Stephen Long, Fullham Road, London
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.New York - Frick Museum, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections, May 21 – August 23, 1992.Oneonta, NY - Hartwick College, 18th and 19th Century Watercolors of European Domestic Interiors, 1987, no. 3.New York - The Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, Part II, 1985, no. 71 (illus.).
- 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: 19.5 x 27.4 cm (7 11/16 x 10 13/16 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), 59, fig. 44; 110, pl. 42.Charlotte Gere, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992), 78-79 [Illus.].
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