House proud : nineteenth-century watercolor interiors from the Thaw collection
"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--the largest collection of its kind in America--to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of the home."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
1st ed
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution : Distributed to the trade worldwide by Assouline Pub., New York, NY, ©2008