Dress up the house like you are the Empress Josephine with window treatments from George Smith’s 1808 work “A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration.” Published in London by J. Taylor.

Aspirational decor from folios and magazines. 2 Minutes
Cornices and drapery in the Chinese style. Plate 3. Page 19 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/2/mode/1up
Drawing room window cornices. Page 23 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n23/mode/1up
Window curtain. Page 28 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n28/mode/1up
Continental Drapery. Plate 12. Page 33 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n33/mode/1up
Continental Drapery and Window Curtains. Page 35 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n35/mode/1up
Continental Drapery and Window Curtains. Page 37 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n37/mode/1up
Window Curtain. Page 41 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n41/mode/1up
Continental Drapery. Plate 13. Page 44 of George Smith’s A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. 1808. Collections of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library with the digitalization having been federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/collectionofdesi00smit/page/n44/mode/1up

George Smith was Upholder Extraordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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