Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Drawing Room Seating 1828

Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Drawing Room Seating
Loretta reports:

We novelists not only have to dress our heroes & heroines, but we must give them places to live as well as furnish those places and determine where best to set a rendezvous, argument, or eavesdropping scene.  Can we arrange a tête-à-tête in a drawing room?  Certainly, and here are some ways to seat our characters. Please note the comment about the lion.
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Images from Ackermann’s Repository for March 1828, courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art via Internet Archive.

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