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

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c. 1937

The sixty-eight Thorne Miniature Rooms enable viewers to glimpse elements of European interiors from the late 13th century to the 1930s and American interiors from the 17th century to the 1930s. Painstakingly constructed on a scale of one inch to one foot, these fascinating models were conceived by Mrs. James Ward Thorne of Chicago and constructed between 1937 and 1940 by master craftsmen according to her specifications. The English Drawing Room of the Georgian Period, c. 1800, reproduced here in 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.

Status: On View, Gallery 11
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Narcissa Niblack Thorne (Designer)
Title: E-12: English Drawing Room of the Georgian Period, c. 1800
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1932–1937
Medium: Miniature room, mixed media
Dimensions: Interior, Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 28.6 × 48.3 × 42 cm (11 1/4 × 19 × 16 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne
Reference Number: 1941.1197
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Fannia Weingartner and Bruce Hatton Boyer, Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004), cat. no. 12, pp. 54-55 (ill.).
John Harris, Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 179-80, fig. 180 (ill.).

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