Design for a Desk with Two Sets of Drawers

Art Historical Context

This delicate pen and ink drawing with watercolor, titled *Design for a Desk with Sets of Drawers*, a glimpse into early th-century British furniture design Created anonymously around the Regency era (c. 1800–1820), it depicts a compact desk featuring dual drawer sets, likely intended for a gentleman's study or lady's writing table. Measuring just 3 7/8 6 7/8 inches, the sheet intimate scale highlights its purpose as a precise working drawing, preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department through the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund of 1938. In an age when Britain's bu...