Household Furniture and Interior Decoration
Medium
Engraving and etching
Dimensions
18 1/2 x 12 x 1 in. (47 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm)
Classification
Books|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.48.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Household Furniture and Interior Decoration**1807) is a seminal design manual by Thomas Hope, a visionary British architect and collector whose passion for ancient styles shaped Regency-era aesthetics. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and printed by Thomas Bensley, volume exemplifies the Neoclassical and Egyptian Revival movements, blending Greco-Roman grandeur with exotic Egyptian motifs like sphinxes. Hope drew from his vast collection of antiquities to propose innovative furniture and interiors, making sophisticated design accessible to the emerging middle class amid Britain's i...
About the Artist
Thomas Hope|Thomas Bensley|Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
Thomas Hope (1769–1831) was born in Amsterdam into the illustrious Hope family of Scottish-Dutch merchant bankers, Hope & Co., as the eldest son of Jan Hope and Philippina Barbara van der Hoeven.) Following his father's death in 1784, the family amassed vast wealth from banking and art collecting, with Hope inheriting a passion for antiquities nurtured amid his parents' opulent estates like Groene...