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House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

$45.00

Davidson, Gail S.

Cl. New York, 2008

Book ID: 79311

In the nineteenth century, it became highly fashionable for aristocratic and upper-class homeowners in Europe to commission watercolor paintings of their domestic interiors and to collect them in albums to be passed on to children, given as gifts to visiting royalty, and displayed in drawing rooms. House Proud commemorates the recent gift of a group of eighty-five nineteenth-century watercolor interior drawings to the Cooper Hewitt Museum.

176 pp., 125 illus.