The furniture-makers Nicholas Morel and George Seddon went into partnership in 1826 to decorate George IV’s new Private Apartments in Windsor Castle. The firm produced a series of designs showing the principal elevations of each room, with the intended

Furnishing Windsor Castle

Designs and furnishings for George IV's Green Drawing Room at Windsor

ALEXANDER CRESWELL (B. 1957)

Windsor Castle: the Green Drawing Room, after restoration

drawn 1999

RCIN 933492

In 1992 a fire at Windsor Castle severely damaged the Semi-State Rooms, including the Green Drawing Room. By good fortune however, the contents of the rooms had been removed at the time. Each room was subsequently restored to its nineteenth-century appearance using the original designs supplied to George IV. This watercolour shows the Green Drawing Room after restoration.

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