The Drawing Room, Dorchester House
1929
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1929
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Drawing Room, Dorchester House is a 1929 by Hanslip Fletcher, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a small pen-and-ink drawing of a fancy room’s interior. It shows the Drawing Room at Dorchester House in London, drawn the year the house was torn down. The artist included a famous chimney piece by Alfred Stevens in the left side. He signed and dated the work in the bottom right corner. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
This pen and ink drawing on paper depicts the interior of the Drawing Room at Dorchester House, a rococo-style space featuring ornately carved mouldings and fluted wall pilasters with elaborate capitals. The left half of the composition focuses on the chimney piece by Alfred Stevens, which includes two large female figures flanking the structure and floral carvings above, with a small sculptural figure positioned at the top. The work is signed and dated by Hanslip Fletcher in the bottom right corner. The drawing was created in 1929, the same year Dorchester House on Park Place in London was…
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English artist Hanslip Fletcher made delicate pencil drawings of grand interiors and quiet corners in the early 1900s.
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