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Silver winker - mount made for HRH the Prince of Wales

Design
1825-1873 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rogers, William Harry (Designer)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Page from an album, from which the cover has been lost, on which is a design of an elaborate, semi-circular mount drawn in pencil. It is drawn on a rectangular page of grey paper stuck to, and within a pencil border on, a large sheet of cream-coloured, stiffened paper.


Object details

Category
Designs
Object type
Design
TitleSilver winker - mount made for HRH the Prince of Wales (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and wash on paper
Pencil
Paper
Wash
Drawing
Painting
Brief description
Design for a silver winker-mount made for HRH the Prince of Wales, by William Harry Rogers. British. Pencil and wash on wove paper. c.1825-1873
Physical description
Page from an album, from which the cover has been lost, on which is a design of an elaborate, semi-circular mount drawn in pencil. It is drawn on a rectangular page of grey paper stuck to, and within a pencil border on, a large sheet of cream-coloured, stiffened paper.
Dimensions
  • Loose page of album height: 31.5cm
  • Loose page of album width: 24.6cm
  • Design height: 14.7cm
  • Design width: 8.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Silver winter [illegible inscription] - mount made for H.R.H / the Prince of Wales.' (Bottom of loose page from album.; Handwriting; Pen and ink; Unknown)
  • 'W H ROGERS invt.' (Signature; Latin; Beneath the design for the mount; Handwriting; Pencil)
    Translation
    invt. = invenit which means designed
Credit line
Purchased with the Assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries
Object history
This silver winker-mount was designed for harness presumably for Prince Albert's stable. There is a reference in the 'Oxford English Dictionary' to 'coach-horse's winkers' and to the use of the term in the 1859 'Carriage Builders' Art Journal' 'the winker-cheek is cut eight inches from buckle to buckle.'

Historical significance: This design is part of the W.Harry Rogers Archive and to quote the information on the archive provided by 'RW' on 6 February 1998 on the registered file 1997/1476:
'It is extraordinarily rare to have this kind of documentation at this level of production for the middle decades of the 19th century. The fact the (sic) the state of the designs ranges from rough sketches to finished drawings and proofs allows the pieces to document the design process very closely.'
Bibliographic references
  • Houfe, Simon 'The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists'. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Baron Publishing, Antique Collectors' Club, revised 1981 437 p. ISBN 0902028731
  • Ball, Douglas 'Victorian Publishers' Bindings.' London: The Library Association, 1985, 90 p. and 155 p.
  • Engen, Rodney K. 'Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers'. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985, 223 p. ISBN 0859641392
  • 'The Oxford English Dictionary' Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Second edition vol.XX, 401 p.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.670-1998

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Record createdNovember 21, 2000
Record URL
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