Photograph
1865-1870 (made)
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Albumen print, a type of photograph, dating to the 1860s-1870s, is of an ironwork fitting for a door and is the work of Skidmore Art Maufactures and Constructive Iron Company, Coventry. The photograph is thus a record of the work done and comes from an archive of designs and photographs from the firm.
Francis Skidmore (1817-1896) was a leading Victorian metalworker in the Gothic Revival style, which was an architectural movement the nineteenth-century practitioners of which sought to revive medieval forms. The ironwork scroll decoration for a door which is no.24 in the pattern book from Skidmore's Art Manufactures Company (Public Library, Coventry) has the same palmette at the centre top of the branches as that in this photograph. Skidmore expressed his admiration for the medieval ironwork on a door at Merton College, Oxford in a letter to the Oxford Archaeological Society Journal. This ironwork decoration and the one in the pattern book seem have partly influenced by this medieval source.
Francis Skidmore (1817-1896) was a leading Victorian metalworker in the Gothic Revival style, which was an architectural movement the nineteenth-century practitioners of which sought to revive medieval forms. The ironwork scroll decoration for a door which is no.24 in the pattern book from Skidmore's Art Manufactures Company (Public Library, Coventry) has the same palmette at the centre top of the branches as that in this photograph. Skidmore expressed his admiration for the medieval ironwork on a door at Merton College, Oxford in a letter to the Oxford Archaeological Society Journal. This ironwork decoration and the one in the pattern book seem have partly influenced by this medieval source.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Albumen print on paper |
| Brief description | Photograph of an ironwork door fitting by Francis Skidmore, 1865-1870. |
| Physical description | Photograph, brownish albumen print, of an ironwork fitting for a door showing scrolling acanthus foliage and flowers coming from a rectangular stem with a central palmette on a long, narrow sheet of photographic paper. |
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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. |
| Production | 'The ironwork scroll decoration for a door is a more elaborate version of one in the Skidmore and Co., pattern book. In a letter to the Oxford Archaeological Society Journal, Skidmore mentioned his admiration for the medieval ironwork on a door at Merton College, Oxford. This scroll and the ones in the pattern book seem to be derived, at least in part, from this medieval source.' Annette Wickham, RF 2001/1166. The ironwork scroll decoration for a door which is no.24 .in the pattern book from Skidmore's Art Manufactures Company (Public Library, Coventry) has the same palmette at the centre top of the branches. |
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| Summary | Albumen print, a type of photograph, dating to the 1860s-1870s, is of an ironwork fitting for a door and is the work of Skidmore Art Maufactures and Constructive Iron Company, Coventry. The photograph is thus a record of the work done and comes from an archive of designs and photographs from the firm. Francis Skidmore (1817-1896) was a leading Victorian metalworker in the Gothic Revival style, which was an architectural movement the nineteenth-century practitioners of which sought to revive medieval forms. The ironwork scroll decoration for a door which is no.24 in the pattern book from Skidmore's Art Manufactures Company (Public Library, Coventry) has the same palmette at the centre top of the branches as that in this photograph. Skidmore expressed his admiration for the medieval ironwork on a door at Merton College, Oxford in a letter to the Oxford Archaeological Society Journal. This ironwork decoration and the one in the pattern book seem have partly influenced by this medieval source. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.416-2006 |
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| Record created | October 31, 2007 |
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