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Design for the Decoration of the Saloon, Royal Pavillion, Brighton
Frederick Craceca. 1815
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Design of a section of south end of the circular room, showing the coved semicircular recess with doors. Window at right. The walls are hung with large panels of Chinese wallpaper of flowers and collaged birds, the base and mouldings are painted, as well as the columns at the entrance to the recess.Original album associated with this collection still exists. See 1948-40-1 accessory.
Details
- Title: Design for the Decoration of the Saloon, Royal Pavillion, Brighton
- Creator: Frederick Crace
- Creator Lifespan: 1779/1859
- Date Created: ca. 1815
- Physical Dimensions: w346 x h527 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- Medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on white wove paper
- Viewing Notes: Design of a section of south end of the circular room, showing the coved semicircular recess with doors. Large window pane at right. The walls are hung with large panels of Chinese wallpaper of flowers and birds. The base, mouldings and columns at the entrance are brightly painted.
- Markings: Watermarks: 1948-40-25a: Read from verso, upside-down, center below upper edge: J WHATMAN /1815; 1948-40-25b: Read from verso, upside down: JWH/18wove paper (kb)
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection," August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.Cincinnati, OH, The Taft Museum, Chinoiserie, Oct 5-Dec 2, 1979.New York-The Brooklyn Museum, The Art of Decoration, Drawing and Objects from the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, December 18, 1973- Feb. 3, 1974.London, V & A, An American Museum of Decorative Arts & Design-- Designs from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection, NY, June 13 - Aug. 12, 1973, no. 52 (rep.).New York-Cooper Union Museum, A Stately Pleasure Dome, Sept. 23-Nov. 12, 1969.Princeton, NJ-The Art Museum, Princeton University, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Apr. 15-May 11, 1969.New Orleans, LA, Tulane University School of Architecture, Drawings and Architecture," March 14-28, 1965, nos. 10 & 11.Louisville, KY-Allen R. Hite Institute, University of Louisville, The Brighton Pavilion, January 4-29, 1955.
- Dimensions: 52.7 x 34.6cm (20 3/4 x 13 5/8in.)
- Bibliography: Hathaway, Calvin and Frank Culver. "A Stately Pleasure Dome," Decoration and Design, (October 1961): 36 (illus.).Tulane University. Drawings and Architecture. New Orleans, LA: Tulane University New Orleans, 1965, nos. 10, 11.Harris, John. A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture andLandscape Gardening, 1550-1900, in American Collections. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: The Gregg Press, 1971, p. 91, pl. 64.Arts Council of Great Britain. An American Museum of Decorative Arts & Design: Designs from the Cooper- Hewitt Collection. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 25, no. 52 (illus.).Morely, John. "Early Chinoiserie Interiors at Brighton Pavilion," Apollo CXVI (September 1982): 157-158.Morely, John. The Making of the Royal Pavilion Brighton: Designs and Drawings. London, 1984, p. 86, no. 53, fig. 50.
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