A16: Pennsylvania Drawing Room, 1761
c. 1940
Medium
Miniature room, mixed media
Dimensions
Interior, Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 30.5 × 44.5 × 48 cm (12 × 17 1/2 × 18 7/8 in.)
Classification
miniature
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45358
Art Historical Context
Narcissa Nibl Thorne’s *A16 Pennsylvania Drawing Room,1761* offers a crafted glimpse into colonial domestic life. Created around1940 at a precise-inch-to-one-foot, this miniature room captures the refined elegance an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania interior, complete with period-appropriateing, furnishings, and details rendered in mixed. Thorne, renowned for series of historically accurate interiors, devoted extraordinary care every element, transforming work into both a historical and a work of. Housed in the Institute of Chicago’s Applied of Europe department, piece reflects the cultural ex...
About the Artist
Narcissa Niblack Thorne · 1882–1966
Narcissa Niblack Thorne (1882–1966) was born on May 2 in Vincennes, Indiana, the eldest child of William Niblack and Frances Caldwell Niblack. Her family relocated to Chicago during her childhood, where she received a patchwork education: homeschooled by a governess, public schooling from age eleven, private classes, and finishing at the elite Kenwood Institute in Hyde Park. Extensive family trave...