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The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

William Henry Hunt1823

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

This stately drawing room features a fashionable sky-patterned ceiling with a trompe l'oeil of an eagle holding the central chandelier; matching dark green wall covering and curtains; and wood carvings by Grinling Gibbons. Paintings flanking the door are by J. M. W. Turner; the one to the right is titled The Thames at Walton Bridge. On either side of the fireplace, pediments holding bronze statuettes are attributed to Andre Boulle himself, while mounted porcelain vases decorate the tops of Boulle-style cabinets. A table and chais are in the Louis XV style. On the left, there is a woman seated at a piano and on the right, a small dog in the foreground.

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  • Title: The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury
  • Creator: William Henry Hunt
  • Creator Lifespan: 1790/1864
  • Date Created: 1823
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Thaw Collection
  • Medium: Brush and pencil and watercolor heightened with white gouache on white wove paper
  • Signed: Lower left: Wm. Hunt 1823
  • Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Christie's, London, November 14, 1995, lot 69
  • 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.
  • 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: 23.1 x 29 cm (9 1/8 x 11 7/16 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),43-44, fig. 19; 78, pl. 4.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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