Drawing, The Library at Brabourne Vicarage

M. F. Pearce

ca. 1890

brush and watercolor on paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A view through a doorway into a room with a bookshelf, a table with a blue tablecloth, and a chair. A vase of yellow flowers sits on the floor in the foreground. A view through a doorway into a room with a bookshelf, a table with a blue tablecloth, and a chair. A vase of yellow flowers sits on the floor in the foreground. While this vicarage library is typically Victorian in stye, it incorporates elements of the Aesthetic movement. The circular table covered with a blue velvet cloth, scrap screen on the left and floral-patterned carpet are common to late nineteenth century vicarages. However, the pale gray walls and white-matted watercolors above the bookcase show Aesthetic leanings.