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The earliest known use of the noun drawing room is in the mid-1600s, with the earliest evidence of drawing room appearing in 1635, from a Victorian-era memoir titled Steward's Household Accounts.
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A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber , which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. [ 1 ]
A courtroom sketch by Butch Krieger of an accused person flanked by two attorneys, drawn in about eight minutes. A courtroom sketch is an artistic depiction of the proceedings in a court of law.
The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion for 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The first issue as Ballou's was 6 January 1855. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. It ceased publication in 1859. [1]
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This is a list of board games.See the article on game classification for other alternatives, or see Category:Board games for a list of board game articles. Board games are games with rules, a playing surface, and tokens that enable interaction between or among players as players look down at the playing surface and face each other. [1]
The light artist Chris Levine took 10,000 images in the Yellow Drawing Room of Queen Elizabeth II over two sittings to create his 2004 hologram, Equanimity. This was the first 3D holographic portrait of the Queen. [15] Rolf Harris painted the Queen in the room for his portrait to mark her 80th birthday in 2005. [16]