Drawing, The Drawing Room - Informal Sitting Room, Brabourne Vicarage

M. F. Pearce; Clare E. Thaw

1893

brush and watercolor over graphite on paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A watercolor painting depicts a sunlit interior room with a large window, a sofa, chairs, and potted plants. The scene captures a cozy and lived-in atmosphere. A watercolor painting depicts a sunlit interior room with a large window, a sofa, chairs, and potted plants. The scene captures a cozy and lived-in atmosphere. This view shows a typical room in a vicar's home, comfortably furnished at little expense. The wicker chair, large plant in a terra-cotta pot, casually upholstered day bed and patterned walls and floor create a somewhat nondescript, yet cozy, interior. Elements of the Aesthetic Movement appear in the side chair rail and ceiling moldings.