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Design

Artist/Maker
Jacob Halder (designer)
Place of origin
Greenwich (made)

Almain Armourers Album page


Object details

Object type
Design
Materials and techniques
Pen, ink and watercolour on paper
Brief description
Almain Armourers Album page
Dimensions
  • Height: 43cm
  • Width: 29.2cm
Production
This album is probably a record of all the decorated suits of armour in the production of which Halder was personally involved. It does not show plain white armours which must have outnumbered the decorated ones.
Bibliographic references
  • Sloan, Kim. A NewWorld. England's first view of America London: The British Museum Press, 2006. ill. ISBN: 0714126500.
  • Dillon, Viscount. An Almain armourer's album: selections from an original manuscript in Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington London: W.Griggs, 1905.
  • Hind, A.M. Professor. The Drawings of Greenwich Suits of Armour in the Victoria and Albert Museum'. The Burlington Magazine. Sept. 1923.
  • Dillon, Viscount and Laking, Guy, Sir. In European Armour and Arms. IV, 1921. p. 2.
  • Richardson, Thom. 'The Royal Armour Workshops of Greenwich' in Rimer, Richardson, Cooper (ed.) Henry VIII: Arms and the Man, 2009.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SHEET.87-1894

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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