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Metalwork Design

1910-1913 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawings (one of four) of a lectern, chalices and an altar candlestick.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pencil and water-colour
Brief description
Pencil and water-colour drawing (one of four) by Frank Theodore of a lectern, chalices and an altar candlestick, 1910-1913.
Physical description
Drawings (one of four) of a lectern, chalices and an altar candlestick.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.7cm
  • Width: 9.5cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Frank Theodore' (Signed)
  • (Dated between 1910 and 1913)
  • (Inscribed with title and note)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Object history
The altar candlestick is similar to one designed by G. F. Bodley for Ripon Cathedral. Bodley's design is E.1042-1963. The lectern is similar to one designed by Sir Ninian Comper, and the chalice, E.1034-1963, is similar to an example designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and made for the church of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, in 1877.
Historical context
The artist, Mr. Frank Theodore, was articled to the firm of Barkentin and Krall, ecclesiastical metal-workers from 1906 to 1914. In the years between 1909 and 1913 he made copies from working drawings of church plate designed by G. F. Bodley, William Burges, J. L. Pearson, G. E. Street and others. He received a Regent Street Polytechnic medal for building construction, and a bronze medal for metal casting from the Founders' Company in 1910. From 1917 to 1925 he was a member of the Royal Navy, and while sailing on the Round the World Empire Cruise of the Special Service Squadron made a set of water-colour drawings, now in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. From 1926 he worked for the London and North Easter railway, rejoined the Royal Navy during the Second World War and in 1946 returned to the Architect's Department at Kings Cross Station, London.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.1033-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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