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11. Queen Anne
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18th Century ENGLAND
The Queen Anne Period1702-1714
Academic Department
INIFD Corporate
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The Queen Anne Style 1702-1714
The early years of the 18th century were a
transition between the austere William and
Mary styles and the more relaxed and
curvilinear Queen Anne.
Queen Anne was only on the throne for ashort time, but her name has become
synonymous with an elegant and beautiful
style of furniture that is still used and
enjoyed today.
Architecture during the period was acontinuation of the Baroque. Sir Christopher
Wren was still active, and John Vanbrugh,
one of his assistants, became a well-known
practitioner of the style.
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Blenheim Palace
The premier house of the period
was Blenheim Palace, designed
by John Vanbrugh (below right)
& Nicholas Hawkesmoor for
the Duke and Duchess ofMarlborough (John and Sarah
Churchill).
A gift from the English
Parliament to the Duke after his
victory over the French at theBattle of Blenheim, the house
was constructed between 1704
and 1724.
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Blenheim Palace
A classical entry porticofaces a courtyard and aview across lawns to alake.
The scale is massive andthe palace is regarded asthe best example of trulyBaroque architecture in
England, a monumentrather than a comfortablehouse.
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Blenheim Palace
Large formal rooms are arrangedan enfilade (an enfilade is a suiteof rooms formally aligned witheach other. This was a commonfeature in grand Europeanarchitecture from the Baroque
period onwards) or in succeedingseries around the perimeter of theground floor.
The State Dining Room isdecorated with frescoes ofclassical columns and balconieswhere images of famous figuresfrom history overlook dinner
guests.
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Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire: an
enfilade of 9 state
rooms runs the length
of the palace (marked
"N" to "G" at the top of
the figure). Notealignment of doors
between rooms
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Blenheim Palace
The library runs the
entire depth of one
wing of the house and
is decorated withclassical moldings,
columns, pilasters and
decorative detail.
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Blenheim Palace
Furnishings are
elaborate and
scaled to the
size of therooms.
Floors are
marble or wood
and coveredwith rich rugs
and carpets.
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Blenheim Palace
In the early 18th century Queen Anne's gardener, Henry Wise, designed
the grounds of the palace in the formal style of Andr Le Ntre's
gardens for Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles in France. Almost nothing
remains of Wise's landscaping, however. In the middle of the century,
tastes changed, and Lancelot Capability Brown was asked to redesignthe grounds in his pastoral style of informal or seemingly natural
landscapes of woods, lawns, and waterways.
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Queen Anne Furniture
Furniture was lighter and morerefined than William and Marytypes, and was the mostimportant contribution of the
age to the decorative arts. Human scale and comfort were
becoming more important,especially in the design ofchairs, which were shaped to fitthe body.
This chair is decorated withChinoiserie in color and goldleaf.
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The cabriole leg was introduced as a
Baroque element in English furnitureduring the reign of Queen Anne (1702-
1714) and remained until about 1760.
The full French Rococo style was
marked in England by 1750 by a moredelicate cabriole leg. This later
evolution was named the Chippendale
period. In case furniture, strong
architectural forms using balanced
proportions, moldings, and pediments,
which had begun to develop under
William and Mary, were characteristic
of Queen Anne style furniture.
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Queen Anne Furniture
Chairs were an
important part of every
home where taste and
refinement were valued. Queen Anne chairs have
cabriole legs, shaped
splats and a variety of
feet, which include theslipper, trifid and club
foot.
The corner chair has
slipper feet.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This parrot back Queen
Anne chair has triffid
(three-toed) feet and
cabriole legs. The parrot is visible in
the negative spaces on
either side of the center
splat.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This side chair has
characteristics of the late
Queen Anne style, and is
transitional into the EarlyGeorgian period.
The feet are claw-and-ball
and the apron, the crest
rail and knees are carvedwith stylized shells.
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Queen Anne Furniture
The wing chair was
developed from earlier
examples of sleeping and
upholstered chairs. Theexample here has club
feet, turned stretchers and
Bargello embroidery
upholstery (a geometric
pattern popular since the
Renaissance).
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Queen Anne Furniture
This candle stand has a
slipper foot and is made
from mahogany.
Used to support acandleholder in the 18th
century, today it would be
used as a side table.
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Queen Anne Furniture
The tea table was a design
resulting from the fashion
for drinking tea as a daily
social occasion in the 18th
century.
This example has club feet
and slides which pull out
to hold candlesticks oneach end.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This Queen Anne style
console has club feet and a
marble top.
The knee of each leg isdecorated with a stylized
seashell motif, a favorite
embellishment in this style
found on furniture legs,aprons and drawer fronts.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This Queen Anne lowboy
has club feet and is made
from tiger maple, a
popular wood in thecolonies.
The hardware is composed
of bail handles with a
back-plate called a batwing brass.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This small chest is made
from walnut with Oyster
veneers, a pattern created
by using the wood fromthe joint of small branches
to the trunk.
The bun feet are
characteristic of the earlierpart of the period.
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Queen Anne Furniture
The flat-topped Queen
Anne highboy was a
common piece for storage
in the 18th
century. The cabriole legs are
finished in club feet.
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Queen Anne Furniture
Another example of a
Queen Anne highboy is,
as usual, in two parts to
make it easier to move thetall, heavy piece.
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Queen Anne Furniture
The pediment-topped
Queen Anne highboy was
also widely made and
used. This broken pediment has
a flame-shaped finial in
the center.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This drop-front desk has
trifid (three-toed) feet and
a shaped apron typical of
the period. It is made from
mahogany, which was
imported into England and
America from theCaribbean and South
America.
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Queen Anne Furniture
Windsor chairs appearedfirst in the early 18thcentury and were used in avariety of settings where
casual furniture wasappropriate.
Painted examples wereused outdoors as lawn or
terrace furniture This is a comb-back
windsor.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This comb and bow-back
windsor has the
characteristic splayed legs
which were turned on alathe, as were the spindles.
The seat is called a saddle
seat because of the
shaping created to fit therear of the sitter.
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Queen Anne Furniture
This continuous arm
windsor (top) is also a
typical form found in both
England and the American
colonies. The windsor writing chair
(bottom) was used in both
taverns and parlors to write
letters or accounts. The
drawer under the seat is forstorage of paper and pens.