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Modern Designs for Household Furniture

Print
ca. 1830 (published)
Artist/Maker
King, Thomas (designer)
King, Thomas (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Coloured print showing a design for a bed. One of 23 designs bound in a volume with a further 12 plates.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Furniture
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
TitleModern Designs for Household Furniture (suite title)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph coloured by hand
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
Thomas King (after), one of 23 designs for beds from 'Modern Designs for Household Furniture', London, 1830.
Physical description
Coloured print showing a design for a bed. One of 23 designs bound in a volume with a further 12 plates.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 23.8cm
  • Size of volume width: 18.1cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
'Published by T. King, 17, Gate Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, London.'
Object history
This print is one of 23 plates of designs for beds from Modern Designs for Household Furniture by Thomas King, published by the author, London, ca.1830. These plates are bound in a volume, together with 12 plates of designs for beds from Original and Novel Designs for Decorative Household Furniture by J. R. Taylor, published by Josiah Taylor, London, ca.1833.
Subject depicted
Beds (Furniture)
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.756-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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