Library Ladder
William France
1782
Medium
Mahogany and brass
Dimensions
249 × 161.3 × 92.1 cm (98 × 63 1/2 × 36 1/4 in.)
Classification
furniture
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
208143
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England, is perhaps best known as the site where the first game of badminton was played (on a rainy day in 1863), but as the principal country residence of the Dukes of Beaufort its historical importance long predates that event. Several of the dukes enriched the beauty of the house. For example, the 4th Duke commissioned a suite of chinoiserie furniture from the fashionable London cabinet makers John and William Linnell in 1754, which became famous enough to ...