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The Circular Dining Room at Carlton House, London
Charles Wild1819
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
In this view, the circular dining room is dominated by two massive marble columns terminating in bronze capitals, and two large crystal and silver chandeliers. The ceiling is painted to resemble a cloudy sky; a frieze below is decorated with a series of putti holding garlands of leaves. Glass stars adorn the blue curtains, chimney surround overmantle mirror, creating an opulent setting for three ladies dressed in diaphanous gowns.
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- Title: The Circular Dining Room at Carlton House, London
- Creator: Charles Wild
- Creator Lifespan: 1781/1835
- Date Created: 1819
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor, gouache on white wove paper
- Provenance: Ex. Coll.: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; William Drummond, 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.
- Dimensions: Old frame H x W x D: 74.3 x 64.1 x 2.5 cm (29 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 in.)Sheet: 46.1 x 38.1 cm (18 1/8 x 15 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), 37, fig. 11; 77, pl. 2.Charlotte Gere, An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992), 30-31 [illus.].Jonathan Bourne and Vanella Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, Renaissance to Art Nouveau (London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1991), 178-79, no. 589.Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989), jacket front; frontispiece [illus.], misidentified as being illustration from Pyne, Royal Residences.
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