About This Artwork

Mrs. James Ward Thorne
American, 1882-1966

E-12: English Drawing Room of the Georgian Period, c. 1800, c. 1937

Miniature room, mixed media
Interior: 11 1/4 x 19 x 16 1/2 in.
Scale: 1 inch = 1 foot
Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, 1941.1197

The English Drawing Room of the Georgian Period,reproduced here in a detail, was intended to illustrate the late 18th-century Neoclassical style of designer Thomas Sheraton, distinguished by elegant, light shapes and colors. The furniture replicas, made in England, include a harpsichord that is strung with wires attached to moveable ivory keys.