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Drawing

circa 1878 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

John Gregory Crace worked extensively for the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Devonshire House, London, and Chatsworth, designing a wide range of decorative schemes and furniture. He is also well known for his collaboration with A.W.N. Pugin, with whom he worked on the decoration of the new Palace of Westminster, and the medieval court at the Crystal Palace.

The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in the 19th century. They worked for every British monarch from George III to Queen Victoria and on a range of buildings that includes royal palaces, Leeds Town Hall and the Great Exhibition building of 1862.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
pen and ink, watercolour and body colour
Brief description
Design for the interior decoration at Leathersellers' Hall, Great St Helens, City of London; by J.G. Crace, circa 1878.
Physical description
Design for the interior decoration at Leathersellers' Hall, Great St Helens, City of London: wall of vestibule.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.8cm
  • Width: 33cm
Marks and inscriptions
Honore et Labore (Each mount inscribed with motto and with the title and scale, and in pencil with an identifying letter.)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs Eileen Crace
Object history
In June 1867, the Court of the Company decided to redecorate parts of the Hall and invited submissions from a number of decorators including Crace. Crace wished to explain his designs in person but was refused. In August 1867 the scheme of J.H. Earle of Howland Street was chosen and subsequently carried out, only to be swept away in the rebuilding of the Hall in the 1870s.
Summary
John Gregory Crace worked extensively for the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Devonshire House, London, and Chatsworth, designing a wide range of decorative schemes and furniture. He is also well known for his collaboration with A.W.N. Pugin, with whom he worked on the decoration of the new Palace of Westminster, and the medieval court at the Crystal Palace.

The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in the 19th century. They worked for every British monarch from George III to Queen Victoria and on a range of buildings that includes royal palaces, Leeds Town Hall and the Great Exhibition building of 1862.
Bibliographic reference
Megan Aldrich, The Craces: royal decorators 1768-1899, London, Murray, 1990.
Collection
Accession number
E.775-1981

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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