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

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin|John Gregory Crace

ca. 1850 · Watercolor with touches of gold over graphite · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin|John Gregory Crace

Date

ca. 1850

Medium

Watercolor with touches of gold over graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967