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Cabinet Ornaments with Spikes to Drive

Sales Catalogue
ca. 1800 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (artist)
Place of origin
England (printed)

Bound volume of 49 engravings depicting metal-work cabinet ornaments


Object details

Categories
Metalwork
Pattern Books
Prints
Product Design
Household Objects
Designs
Object type
Sales catalogue
Parts
This object consists of 49 parts.

  • Sale Catalogues
  • Print
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TitleCabinet Ornaments with Spikes to Drive (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engravings bound together in card cover with cloth spine, figure of '8' side stitched
Printing Ink
Engraving
Binding
Brief description
49 engravings depicting cabinet ornaments, bound together, English, ca. 1800
Physical description
Bound volume of 49 engravings depicting metal-work cabinet ornaments
Dimensions
  • Head to tail of closed book length: 203mm (Closed book) (Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
  • Width of closed book width: 319mm (Closed book) (Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
  • Width of closed book depth: 11mm (Closed book) (Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
Subjects depicted
Metal-Work
Engravings
Sales Catalogues
Cabinets
Fittings
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration & Design, Old English Pattern Books of the Metal Trades: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection in the Museum. London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1913.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927, London: Board of Education, 1928.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.640-1927

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O760534/cabinet-ornaments-with-spikes-to-sales-catalogue-unknown/
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