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Design for a chandelier

Lighting Design
ca. 1814 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a chandlelier.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for a chandelier (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Drawing in pen, ink and water-colour
Brief description
Design for a chandelier in the gothic style, drawing by the firm Perry & Co., ca. 1814.
Physical description
Design for a chandlelier.
Dimensions
  • Height: 31.1cm
  • Width: 27.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Style
Credit line
Given by Mr John Wateridge
Object history
It is possible that this design and E.2013-1952 were submitted by Parker & Perry in 1814 for the illumination of the gothic additions to Carlton House made by J. Nash and T. Hopper. H. Clifford Smith on p. 115 of Buckingham Palace, London, 1931, refers to Parker & Perry providing ‘4 Hexagon Gothic Lanterns’ for Carlton House in 1814. W. H. Pyne in Royal Residences, London, 1819, Vol. 3, illustrates the conservatory of Carlton House in the plate to face p.88 which shows lanterns similar to these in position.’
Production
One of a series of drawings (E.2009-2014-1952) executed by the firm of Perry &Co. (formerly Parker & Perry) established in London by Mr. William Parker in the mid-18th century, which supplied lighting appliances, inter alia to the Royal Palaces and Residences. The company continued in existence until 1925. For later designs made for Perry & Co., see the volumes and drawings by Bartlett and J. Wateridge, the donor of these drawings.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection
Accession number
E.2014-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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