E-9: English Drawing Room of the Georgian period, 1770-1800
Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882-1966
c. 1937
On view — Gallery 11 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Narcissa Niblack Thorne, creator of the Thorne Rooms, combined a deep knowledge of design history with a vivid imaginative sensibility. In the 1930s, she assembled a team of skilled artisans in Chicago to construct a series of intricately detailed interiors at the scale of one inch to one foot…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Miniature room, mixed media
- Dimensions
- Interior, Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 43.2 × 63.5 × 86.4 cm (17 × 25 × 34 in.); Internal Measurements of Main Room: 52.1 × 68.6 × 86.4 cm (20 1/2 × 27 × 34 in.)
- Origin
- United States