A Modern Drawing Room

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Artist/Maker	Cornelius Brouwer (made by)
Place of origin	Netherlands (made)

Hand-coloured engraving, touched with gold, of a scene in van Elvervelt's The Father of the Family depicting a modern drawing room.

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Categories	Theatre Prints Designs
Object type	Print
Title	A Modern Drawing Room (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Hand-coloured engraving, touched with gold Paper Engraving Hand-Colouring
Brief description	Print by Cornelius Brouwer, scene from The Father of the Family by H. van Elvervelt, hand-coloured engraving, Dutch, 1787-1794
Physical description	Hand-coloured engraving, touched with gold, of a scene in van Elvervelt's The Father of the Family depicting a modern drawing room.
Dimensions	Height: 10in (Note: cut to average size) Width: 11.5in (Note: cut to average size) Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Credit line	Given by Sir Barry Jackson
Subject depicted	Set Design
Bibliographic references	Department of Prints and Drawings, Theatre Costume Design in the Victoria and Albert Museum Colour Microfiche, Emmett Microform, 1985 Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1932. London: HMSO, 1933
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2493-1932

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O744518/a-modern-drawing-room-print-cornelius-brouwer/

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