Photograph
1861-1872 (made)
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This albumen print, a type of photograph commonly made in the 1860s and 1870s from a glass negative was made in the photographic studio in the factory building of Skidmore & Co, (from 1865 Skidmore's Art Manufactures and Constructive Iron Co) at Alma Street, Coventry. It is of a metalwork screen for an ecclesiastical building by an unknown photographer for the firm of the leading Victorian metalworker Francis Skidmore, (1817-1896). This photograph is a record of the completed work and forms part of the Skidmore design archive. Now little known, Skidmore was once famous as the maker of the Albert Memorial (1863-1876) and the Hereford Screen (which was exhibited in London at the International Exhibition of 1862). Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) designed both the memorial and the screen and employed Skidmore to execute them.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print on paper mounted on card |
| Brief description | Photograph of a screen from Francis Skidmore's firm, 1861-1872. |
| Physical description | Photograph in the form of a brownish albumen print of a metalwork screen with a central monogram that looks like an 'H'. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries |
| Object history | The provenance is the grand-daughter of Francis Skidmore. |
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| Summary | This albumen print, a type of photograph commonly made in the 1860s and 1870s from a glass negative was made in the photographic studio in the factory building of Skidmore & Co, (from 1865 Skidmore's Art Manufactures and Constructive Iron Co) at Alma Street, Coventry. It is of a metalwork screen for an ecclesiastical building by an unknown photographer for the firm of the leading Victorian metalworker Francis Skidmore, (1817-1896). This photograph is a record of the completed work and forms part of the Skidmore design archive. Now little known, Skidmore was once famous as the maker of the Albert Memorial (1863-1876) and the Hereford Screen (which was exhibited in London at the International Exhibition of 1862). Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) designed both the memorial and the screen and employed Skidmore to execute them. |
| Bibliographic reference | Huw Jones and Annette Wickham, Francis Skidmore: A Coventry Craftsman, (Coventry Arts and Heritage, 2003), pp. 9-10. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.403-2006 |
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| Record created | October 17, 2007 |
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