"...the light-green walls of the drawing room." (February 1, 1814)

Hawksfield House is in Albemarle Street – one day I’ll tell you why – but its drawing room is modelled on Rooms 4 and 5 in the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, London: white plasterwork and painted ornaments including pilaster strips with medallions, and swags and urns in the coved ceiling, set off against light green walls above a white dado. 

I first went to see the art collection there back in 2005, and was so impressed with the harmonious sequence of rooms in which it is housed that instead of getting a catalogue of the paintings, I bought several books about Georgian architecture: John Newman, Somerset House, with photographs by Angelo Hornak, 1990; John Summerson, Georgian London, 1945; Trevor Yorke, Georgian and Regency Houses Explained, 2007.