LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT
OLD FURNITURE
II. QUEEN ANNE
LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD FURNITURE
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| I. | TUDOR TO STUART |
| II. | QUEEN ANNE |
| III. | CHIPPENDALE AND HIS SCHOOL |
| IV. | THE SHERATON PERIOD |
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
21 Bedford Street, W.C.
Queen Anne Walnut Tallboy and Stool
(Early Eighteenth Century)
LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD FURNITURE
ENGLISH FURNITURE: BY J. P. BLAKE
& A. E. REVEIRS-HOPKINS. VOLUME II
| LONDON | MCMXIV |
| WILLIAM | HEINEMANN |
| First published | October 1911 |
| New Edition | January 1913 |
| Second Impression | June 1914 |
Copyright London 1911 by William Heinemann
INTRODUCTION
The sovereigns of England, unlike those of France, have seldom taken tothemselves the task of acting as patrons of the fine arts. Thereforewhen we write of the "Queen Anne period" we do not refer to theinfluence of the undistinguished lady who for twelve years occupied thethrone of England. The term is merely convenient for the purpose ofclassification, embracing, as it does, the period from William and Maryto George I. during which the furniture had a strong family likeness andshows a development very much on the same line. The change, at the lastquarter of the seventeenth century, from the Jacobean models to theDutch, was probably the most important change that has come over Englishfurniture. It was a change which strongly influenced Chippendale and hisschool, and remains with us to this day.
The period from William and Mar