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Watercolour of Victorian drawing room with lamps and seated company – Antique Print

Watercolour of Victorian drawing room with lamps and seated company — historic drawing
Watercolour of Victorian drawing room with lamps and seated company. Historic drawing from the Fine Art Prints collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic drawing of Watercolour of Victorian drawing room with lamps and seated company brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Watercolour of Victorian drawing room with lamps and seated company

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The most striking thing about this watercolour is its lamplight. Warm glows pick out the furniture, the seated figures and the polished surfaces of a Victorian drawing room, so the scene reads as an evening gathering rather than a daytime interior. Drawing rooms of the period were the main social space of a middle-class or upper-class house, used for receiving guests, conversation, music and reading. Interiors like this were a favorite subject for watercolourists of the era, who used the medium's transparent washes to capture soft light on fabric and wood. Looking closely at the arrangement of the company shows how the room was meant to be used.

Original scan1,199 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
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