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The Old Bedchamber, St James's Palace c. 1800-15
Watercolour | 53.8 x 36.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 917129
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A watercolour drawing of a sparsely furnished room at St James's Palace, tapestries or paintings on wall. Signed: Nash.
This drawing is one of five sheets that were originally intended as pages to be interleaved into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Pennant's History of London, first published in 1790, with a later edition in 1814. The others are RCINs 917125-917129. A copy of Pennant's book, with extra-illustrations by the Sandby brothers added to it, is in the British Museum (Crowle Pennant).Provenance
Purchased (with 917128) by George IV when Prince Regent from Colnaghi & Co., 8 May 1815 (Royal Archives GEO/MAIN/28053, 'Two [drawings] Council Chamber and Old Bed Chamber at St James, £3 3s')
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour
Measurements
53.8 x 36.0 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
Rl 17129
