Design for the Decoration of the Drawing Room at Eastnor Castle, Hertfordshire

John Gregory Crace British
 Designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin British

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This watercolor records the redecoration of the drawing room at Eastnor Castle, a building designed by Robert Smirke in 1811. Parts of the interior were redesigned by A.W.N. Pugin In 1849-50 in a neo-Gothic style, with much of the work carried out by the London decorating firm of Crace. John Gregory Crace here shows the drawing room with a blue fan-vaulted ceiling with gilded ribs, green walls ornamented with a striped pattern, red curtains, paintings and a gothic mantlepiece and cabinet.

Design for the Decoration of the Drawing Room at Eastnor Castle, Hertfordshire, John Gregory Crace (British, London 1809–1889 Dulwich), Watercolor with touches of gold over graphite

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