1874
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Green Drawing Room, Windsor Castle is a 1874 by Frederic Shields, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a corner of a room with a green sofa and a fancy gold lamp. The sofa has a curved back and armrests, and the lamp has a twisted cord with a fancy base. The colors are mostly muted, but the gold stands out. The artist used quick, loose lines to show light and shadow without too much detail. This style matches how some painters worked in the 1800s to capture how things look in real life. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more sketches like this.
The drawing depicts a gold-colored chandelier and a portion of a chair or sofa featuring leaf carvings and lion's paw feet, upholstered in green fabric. It is one of seven drawings created in 1874 to provide the background and furnishings for a composite photograph, a collaborative effort with photographer Lachlan McLachlan, completed in 1876.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Frederic James Shields (14 March 1833 – 26 February 1911) was a British artist, illustrator, and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.
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