The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms
| The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Rolinda Sharples |
| Year | 1818 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 73 cm × 88.2 cm (29 in × 34.7 in) |
| Location | City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol |
The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms is an 1818 genre painting by the British artist Rolinda Sharples. Foster p. 36 It depicts the cloakroom of the Clifton Assembly Rooms during a ball.[1] Clifton was a fashionable suburb of the port city of Bristol during the Regency era and the Assembly Rooms had opened in 1811. It was the first group painting the artist produced.[2]
Loosely connected to the Bristol School of artists, the Bath-born Sharples produced a number of genre works. The image has become a popular one for illustrating the Regency era. Today the painting is in the collection of the City Museum and Art Gallery in Bristol, having been acquired in 1931.[3][4]
The painting has been used as the cover of several Jane Austen novels and books of her works, including some publications of Pride and Prejudice,[5] and Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye.[6]
References
- ^ Davidson p.196
- ^ Carter p.35
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cloak-room-clifton-assembly-rooms-189077
- ^ https://shop.bristolmuseums.org.uk/products/pod1034573?srsltid=AfmBOoqxsaFniG3vbOXB9l5uIO8u7y_DWaeKxqIPGpmikUUhg_INoAFg&variant=39515469709470
- ^ "Pride and Prejudice (The World's Classics)". Bookie. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
- ^ Le Faye, Deirdre (1 September 2003). Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels. Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0711222786.
Bibliography
- Carter, Julia. Bristol Museum and Art Gallery: Guide to the Art Collection. Bristol Books, 2017.
- Davidson, Hilary. Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion. Yale University Press, 2019.
- Foster, Vanda. The Nineteenth Century. Batsford, 1984.