Pavilion, Music Room. published 1838
Etching with aquatint and hand colouring | 26.6 x 34.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 708000.ai
John Samuel Agar (1773-1858)
Master: Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton; formerly the Pavilion: executed by the Command of King George the Fourth, under the Superintendence of John Nash, Esq. , architect : to which is prefixed, A History of the Palace, by Edward Wedlake Brayley, Esq. , F. S. A. Item: Pavilion, Music Room published 1838
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A hand coloured print depicting a view of the music room in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. For an earlier state see RCIN 708000.ah. Plate 16 of the reissue of Nash's original publication of illustrations of the exterior and interiors of the pavilion which incorporates Nash's original dedication to George IV and listing of the plates (see RCIN 1163283 for a copy of this volume), as well as a new dedication to Queen Victoria, another listing of the illustrations and an essay by Edward Wedlake Brayley entitled A History of the Palace at Brighton. An annotation in ink to Nash's original plate listing records that nine associated watercolours were inserted in 1928 by Queen Mary (see RCINs 918153-918161).
The transformation of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton from a modest villa (known as the Marine Pavilion) to a grand palace took place in the Regency period at the direction of the Prince Regent, later George IV, for whom it was a seaside residence. The architect responsible was John Nash, who also led a number of other large-scale royal building projects, and both the exterior and interiors of the palace at Brighton were strongly influenced by the fashionable taste for East Asian aesthetics. Queen Victoria, however, rarely used the palace and sold the building to the city of Brighton in 1850, though having previously transferred much of its contents to Buckingham Palace. -
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Etching with aquatint and hand colouring
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26.6 x 34.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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