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Design for Bed with Tented Alcove, probably for the Prince of Wales's Bedroom or Boudoir, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Craceca. 1801–04
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Design for an alcove, between two rooms, with a sofa, upholstered in a fabric matching the flanking drapery curtains and the tented ceiling canopy. Above the sofa, the wall is decorated with fluted golden drapery radiating from a convex, sun-shaped mirror. Drapery frames the sofa recess and doorways. The walls of the rooms on either side are turquoise.Original album associated with this collection still exists. See 1948-40-1 accessory.
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- Title: Design for Bed with Tented Alcove, probably for the Prince of Wales's Bedroom or Boudoir, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
- Creator: Frederick Crace
- Creator Lifespan: 1779/1859
- Date Created: ca. 1801–04
- Physical Dimensions: w279 x h203 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on white wove paper
- Provenance: Katherine Gregory, New York
- Exhibitions: Brighton, England - Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, Regency Festival, Summer 1951Louisville, Kentucky - Allen R. Hite Institute, University of Louisville, The Brighton Pavilion, January 4-29, 1955New York, CHNDM - Living with Antiques, May 22 - June 7, 1967Princeton, NJ - Princeton University Art Museum, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, April 15 - May 11, 1969New York, CHNDM - A Stately Pleasure Dome, September 3 - November 12, 1969Brighton, England - Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, Follies and Fantasies, May 14 - August 31, 1971London, England - V&A, An American Museum of Decorative Arts and Design-Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, New York. June 13 - August 12, 1973New York, Brooklyn - The Brooklyn Museum, The Art of Decoration, Drawings and Objects from the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974 (V&A catalogue)Brighton, England - Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, The Crace Firm: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, October 9 - December 30, 1990New York, CHNDM - Design for Life: A Centennial Celebration, September 30, 1997- November 1, 1998
- Dimensions: 20.3 x 27.9cm (8 x 11in.)
- Bibliography: Bloch, E. Maurice, Regency Styling-The Prince and the Decorator,Connoisseur, CXXXI (June 1953), p. 131 (illus.).Art Gallery Museum, Brighton Royal Pavilion Brighton, Follies and Fantasies, 1971 cat. no. 95.Cornforth, John, "An American View of European Design" Country Life, 21 June 1973,p.1825, pl.4Fowler,John and John Cornforth, English Decoration in the 18th Century, (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978) fig. 127Morley, John, "Early Chinoiserie Interiors at Brighton Pavilion", Apollo CXVI, (September 1982), pp. 156, 158, fig. 4.Dinkel,John, The Royal Pavilion Brighton, ( London: Philip Wilson Publishers,Ltd., 1983) p. 114 (illus.).Morley,John, The Making of the Royal Pavilion Brighton, Designs and Drawings, (London: Sotheby's Publications 1984) p. 221, cat. no. 263, fig. 263.Aldrich, Megan,ed., The Craces: Royal Decorators, 1768-1899,( Brighton, The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, 1990) p. 23.Susan Yelavich, Design for Life, New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1997, p. 123, no.2 (illus.)
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