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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor and ink drawing of a rustic timber-roofed interior with a stone hearth, barrel, ladder and shelves of pottery.

Rustic Interior: Stage Design for the Teatro de' Felicini, Bologna

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, 1800

Watercolor of a 19th-century study with a writing desk, marble table, sofa, framed portraits and a brass chandelier.

A Study Interior at St. Polten

Matthäus Kern, 1837

Watercolor of a French Restoration bedroom with blue sofa, chairs, draped curtains, wooden chest and patterned rug.

A French Restoration Bedroom

Watercolor interior of a sitting room with framed prints, a fireplace, upholstered sofas, and a patterned carpet.

George James Drummond's Room at Oxford, 1853

George Pyne, 1850

Watercolor of a green and red Second Empire salon with a crystal chandelier, marble statue, and receding doorways.

Second Empire Salon

French School, 1850

Watercolor of a library with bookshelves, classical columns, coffered ceiling, striped sofas, and a blue carpet.

The Library at Dingestow

Charlotte Bosanquet, 1840

Watercolor of a glass winter garden conservatory with palms, white flowers, statues, wicker furniture and hanging lamps.

A Russian Winter Garden

Vasily Semenovic Sadovnikov, 1830

Watercolor of an Elizabethan room with carved fireplace, stained glass windows, and figures playing lute beside a sleeping do

An Elizabethan Room at Lyme Hall, Cheshire

Joseph Nash the Elder, 1870

Watercolor of a domestic music party with a harpist, violinist, cellist, pianist and a seated spaniel in a panelled room.

The Music Party

Watercolor of a sunlit music room with a grand piano, caned chairs, gilt-framed paintings, and tall windows.

The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)

Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, 1840

Circular print of the interior nave of Saint Peter's in Rome, with a coffered vault, side aisles, and a distant altar canopy.

Interior View of the Nave, Saint Peter's, Rome, Looking Toward the Altar

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, 1740

Watercolor of a 19th-century salon with portraits on the walls, a gilded chandelier, and a seated couple by the windows.

A Salon in a Residence of the Duke of Leuchtenberg

Otto Wagner, 1850

Watercolor of a red-walled Roman interior with green curtains, marble floor, ornate ceiling and a framed painting.

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome

Franz Heinrich, 1840

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with blue curtains, a chandelier, a piano, and figures seated around a table.

Drawing Room

English School, 1840

Watercolor of a Gothic dining hall with paneled walls, stained glass, portraits, a laid table, and figures in period dress.

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford

Joseph Nash the Elder, 1850

Watercolor of a circular neoclassical room with a large chandelier, columns, and three women in white dresses.

The Circular Dining Room at Carlton House, London

Charles Wild, 1810

Sepia interior of a man reading a letter at a desk by lamplight, with a child and dog by the fireplace.

Interior with a Man Reading at His Desk

A. L. Leroy, 1820

Watercolor of a salon with blue drapery, gilt chandelier, framed landscapes, sculptures, and a piano, seen through open doors

A Salon in Restoration Taste

Hilaire Thierry, 1820

Watercolor of a 19th-century man's living room with green drapery, a patterned rug, framed pictures and a bed.

Interior of a Man's Living Room

S. Tolstoi, 1850

Watercolor of an ornate bedroom with a canopied bed, painted domed ceiling, gilded columns and sunburst floor.

Bedroom of King Pedro IV of Portugal (Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil), Palace of Queluz

Ferdinand le Feubure, 1850

Ink and wash drawing of a grand church interior with coffered vaults, columns, and a crowd of figures on the floor.

Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated

Louis Jean Desprez, 1770

Watercolor of a grand salon with a pipe organ, woman at the keys, swagged drapes, chandelier and fireplace.

Large Salon with Organ

English School, 1830

Watercolor of an ornate palace picture gallery with crystal chandeliers, portraits and a man in a dark coat on a marble floor

View of the Picture Gallery at the Château d'Eu (Vue de la Galerie au Château d'Eu)

Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle, 1840

Watercolor of a crowded salon with framed paintings, a seated reader, draped armchairs, a bust, and an ornate ceiling.

Salon in the Apartment of Count Lanckoronski in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt, 1860

Watercolor of a pink damask sitting room with striped chairs, gilt chandelier, lace-curtained windows and a framed painting.

A Room in the Governor's Residence, Hermannstadt (?)

Watercolor interior of a formal salon with three crystal chandeliers, blue chairs, tall windows and classical wall decoration

The Salon in the Montpensier Wing, Palais Royal

Jules Frédéric Bouchet, 1820

Watercolor of an ornate sitting room with gilded coffered ceiling, portraits in gold frames, and a bay window.

Salon Particulier de la Reine au Palais de Buckingham. (The Queen's Sitting Room at Buckingham Palace)

James Roberts, 1840

Watercolor of a dressing room with a tented ceiling, patterned curtains, upholstered chairs, and gilt-framed paintings on the

Interior of a Dressing Room with Tented Ceiling

François Etienne Villeret, 1840

Watercolor and pencil interior of a drawing room with a reclining man, a seated woman at a green-draped table, and a piano.

Interior

French School, 1820

Watercolor of a blue-curtained drawing room with two children playing on a parquet floor beside a toy cart.

Salon Siebleben, near Gotha, Germany

Countess Schoenberg, 1850