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Empire and Regency: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon

More than 1,400 images from twenty primary source illustrated pattern books, scrapbooks, and a set of original French goldsmith's drawings from the late 18th to early 20th-centuries which feature interior decoration, furnishings, furniture patterns, and views relating to the Empire and Regency Styles.

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[Empire style. Clock in bronze doré placed on ebony base. With 3 classic figures below the dial and angels blowing trumpets.] Digital ID: 1211877 [Empire style. Clock in bronze doré placed on ebony base. With 3 classic figures below the dial and angels blowing trumpets.] Digital ID: 1211877

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Album of illustrations of imperial & royal state carriages together with other carriages of deceased statesmen; and the funeral cars of Wellington and Nelson also the four original locomotive engines .... (1899)
The architect and builder's miscellany or pocket library. (1799)
The beauties of the court of Charles the Second; a series of portraits, illustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and other contemporary writers. With memoirs, biographical and critical,.... (1833)
Boutiques parisiennes du Premier Empire. ([1925])
The cabinet maker and artist's encyclopedia. (1805-06)
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide : being a complete drawing book, in which will be comprised treatises on geometry and perspective ... numerous engravings ... / by George Smith ... (1826)
Collections & souvenirs de Malmaison : appartements, meubles et décoration / introduction de Jean Bourguignon ([1921])
Costume of the ladies of England 1810-1823. (1810-1823)
Description des cérémonies et des fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le couronnement de leurs majestés Napoléon, empereur des Français et roi d'Italie, et Joséphine, son auguste épouse : recueil de décoration.... (1807)
Designs for ornamental plate : many of which have been executed in silver, from original drawings / by Charles Heathcote Tatham (1806)
Designs for the pavillon at Brighton : humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales / by H. Repton with the assistance of his sons, John Adey Repton & G. S. Repton. ([1808])
Documents de style empire : Dessins d'orfévrerie de Percier /conservés á la bibliothéque de l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs de Paris et publiés par E. Hessling ([1911])
Documents de style empire: le luminaire, recuell de documents publié par E. Hessling. ([1911?])
Das Empire-ornament nach originalgegenständen und quellenwerken aus der empirezeit. ([c1924])
English interior woodwork of the XVI, XVII, & XVIIIth centuries. A series of the best and most characteristic examples of chimney-pieces, panelling, staircases, doors, screens, & c. Measured and drawn.... (1902)
Examples of ornamental metal work / drawn and engraved by Henry Shaw. (1836)
French goldsmith's designs, ca. 1800. ([ca. 1800])
The History of the Royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckhingham House, and Frogmore. (1819)
Household furniture and interior decoration, executed from designs by Thomas Hope. (1807)
Illustrations of fashionable cabinet furniture : consisting of sixty-one designs ... / by T. King ([184-?])
Interieurs de style--XVIIe & XVIIIe siecles--directoire--empire;soixante planches reproduisant en fac-simile les aquarelles del'auteur, Georges Remon, architecte decorateur. (1907)
Intérieurs d'appartements modernes ([190-?])
Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste : being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (1758)
The practical cabinet-maker, upholsterer, and complete decorator. With numerous illustrative engravings. (1826)
Recueil d'ornemens à l'usage des jeunes artistes qui se destinent à la décoration des bâtiments (1777)
Recueil de décorations intérieures, comprenant tout ce qui a rapport à l'ameublement, comme vases, trépieds, candélabres... / C. Percier. (1812)
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