Drawing Room at Hatton, Warwickshire

Dr. Samuel Parr|Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr

1820–30 · Watercolor · Drawings and Prints

This amateur watercolor records an interior in Dr. Samuel Parr's substantial parsonage at Hatton, where he lived for three decades and ran a small private school for boys. We are shown three women whose dress suggests a date in the 1820s. An inscription once attached to the frame notes that the carved chair behind the table "had been for many years used in the House of Commons," was moved during alterations, passed through several owners, then presented to Dr. Parr. The text also identifies sitters in the portrait prints on the walls as Dr. Parr, Princess Charlotte, Sir Samuel Romilly, Mr. Horner-Johnson, [William?] Paley, Thomas Warton, Joseph Warton, Gilbert Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith, Loweth and [Thomas?] Twining.

Artist

Dr. Samuel Parr|Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr

Date

1820–30

Medium

Watercolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1991