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Middle-class drawing room in Blackheath, London, 1841, painted by James Holland. In 18th-century London, the royal morning receptions that the French called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, where he would make his first formal public appearance of the day.
Pair of cabinets, Robert Hume, c. 1820 (The Crimson Drawing Room, Windsor Castle) Four Florentine pietra dura panels on 18th century cabinets, re-adapted, c. 1820s (The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace) Miscellaneous: Cabinet-on-stand, magnificent example composed of ebony, mid-17th century
The Gold Drawing Room was designed by Alexander Briullov in 1841. Like the adjoining The White Hall, it is the ceremonial part of Alexander II's apartments. The Throne Room of the Munich Residenz [2] was the model for the design of The Gold Drawing Room. All walls and pylons were covered with fine ornaments and covered with gilding. A low panel ...
People - Louisa Courtauld (born 1729 – died 1807) was a member by marriage of one of the most famous families of 18th-century goldsmiths. Her portrait, attributed to the society painter Johann Zoffany (1733-1810), but perhaps by Nathaniel Dance (1735-1811), shows a wealthy businesswoman, rather than a working silversmith.
The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; [9] thus we see the 16th-century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strong-box or jewel-chest than a display-case. [10]
"In an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room" is a pop adaptation of the opening theme from Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K. 545. Opening bars of melody line of "The Toy Trumpet" In 1939, Scott turned his Quintette into a big band .
The room has walls of blue flock, applied in the 1850s and later renewed, bearing paintings from various Italian schools of the 17th century. [26] The Red Drawing Room is lined in crimson silk and is furnished with marquetry commodes. [27] The relatively small study contains plans for the house and potential impressions for various elevations.
A print room is a room in an art gallery or museum where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours, and photographs, are held and viewed. A further meaning is a room decorated by pasting prints onto the wall in a quasi- collage style to form a sort of wallpaper , an 18th-century fashion, of which ...