Lot Essay
A 1/12 scale drawing for the washstand for the Blue Bedroom, Hous'hill. It shows the washstand as executed except for the panels of leaded glass incorporated in the splashback of the finished piece.
Details
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Design for a Washstand, shown in side and front Elevation, 1904
for the Blue Bedroom, Hous'hill inscribed 'Washstand for the bedroom/John Cochrane' and encircled 'The Houshill,/Nitshill.' with scale indications and notes; pencil, watercolour
257 x 298mm.
Design for a Washstand, shown in side and front Elevation, 1904
for the Blue Bedroom, Hous'hill inscribed 'Washstand for the bedroom/John Cochrane' and encircled 'The Houshill,/Nitshill.' with scale indications and notes; pencil, watercolour
257 x 298mm.
Provenance
Herbert Smith Esq
Literature
(1) Billcliffe, D1904.78
Exhibited
Toronto, 1967, no.81; Washington, 1985, no.18