. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 7.âSofa and settee designed by Latrobe for the Oval Drawing Room. {Photo courtesy Maryland Historical Society.) 26, 18KI, just four months after the room was opened to the pubhc, in which he says that "three chairs were broken by a man weighing 3 cwt. leaning back in them,"'" presumably one at a time. We know that the walls of the room were painted, because Latrobe's letter book for June 6, 1809, mentions that the "President's Drawing Room was painted by Mr. ;" The same Mr. Bridgeport, a crafts
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 7.âSofa and settee designed by Latrobe for the Oval Drawing Room. {Photo courtesy Maryland Historical Society.) 26, 18KI, just four months after the room was opened to the pubhc, in which he says that "three chairs were broken by a man weighing 3 cwt. leaning back in them,"'" presumably one at a time. We know that the walls of the room were painted, because Latrobe's letter book for June 6, 1809, mentions that the "President's Drawing Room was painted by Mr. ;" The same Mr. Bridgeport, a craftsinan from Philadelphia, had dec- corated the ceiling of the new chamber for the House of Representatives. The curtains for the room had been a cause for concern. On March 22, 1809, Benjamin Latrobe wrote to Dolley Madison: "There is no Silk Damask to be had either in New York or Philadelphia & I am therefore forced to give you crimson velvet cur- tains of which I can get plenty and which to my astonishment will not be dearer than ; '- On April 12, Mrs. Latrobe advised Dolley that "Mr. Rea has been fortunate in procuring a sufficient quantity of velvet for the Drawing room curtains, sophas, chairs & etc. and they will certainly be very ; " Latrobe, when he saw the velvet obtained by Rea, wrote Dolley Madison on April 21: "The curtains! Oh the terrible velvet curtains! Their effect will ruin me entirely so brilliant will they ; " And on June 6, Latrobe wrote to Captain John Meany in Philadelphia; It is true that I have been very much at a loss for materials for curtains for the President's Drawing Room. The quantity wanted is, however, so unusually large that I have been obliged to have recourse to plain velvet. There are five windowsâ6 yards high. Five breadth in each is 30 yards and five windows therefore require i 50 yards exclusive of draperies, chairs, and sofasâYour six pieces contain only 108 ;
Size: 1253px × 1995px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorun, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience
