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Design
Newman, Charlotte Isabella - Enlarge image
Design
- Place of origin:
London, England (made)
- Date:
ca 1860s (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Newman, Charlotte Isabella (designed)
Firm of John Brogden (made) - Materials and Techniques:
Drawing in pencil and watercolour and ink on card.
- Museum number:
E.2:930-1986
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case MD, shelf 15
This design for bracelet by Charlotte Isabella Newman is from an album of designs produced for the firm of John Brogden (1864-1884). This album contains 1,593 designs for jewellery and goldsmith's work, mainly in colour and dating between 1848 and 1884. Designs like this one demonstrate the resourcefulness which made Newman indispensable to Brogden and also later led her to become the first woman artist-jeweller in late Victorian London. Newman trained at the Government Art School in South Kensington before joining the Brogden firm as a designer, probably in the mid-1860s.
The firm was founded by John Brogden the elder in about 1796.
From about 1824 to 1831 it was styled 'Brogden & Garland' and thereafter until 1841 'Garland & Watherston'. The younger Brogden, the son of Thomas Brogden and presumably a relative of the founder, served an apprenticeship to J.W. Garland as a goldsmith and jeweller from 1834 to 1841. Following Garland's departure, the remaining partner, J. H. Watherston, removed the firm to new premises at the 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden and in 1848 joined forces with the younger Brogden.
