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Old English and French Ornaments

Print
1858-59 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Designs for doors, one of 124 plates from 'Old English and French Ornaments ... by Chippendale, Inigo Jones, Johnson, Lock, and Pether.' Published by John Weale. London, 1858-9.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleOld English and French Ornaments (published title)
Materials and techniques
printer's ink, paper, engraving
Brief description
Designs for doors, one of 124 plates from 'Old English and French Ornaments ... by Chippendale, Inigo Jones, Johnson, Lock, and Pether.' Published by John Weale. London, 1858-9.
Dimensions
  • Size of page in volume height: 18.8cm
  • Size of page in volume width: 22.1cm
Content description
Old English and French Ornaments; comprising 244 Designs, on 105 plates, of elaborate examples of hall glasses, picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture, ornaments for brass workers and silver workers, rich ornamental ironwork patterns, and for carvers, modellers, &c. &c. &c. by Chippendale, Inigo Jones, Johnson, Lock, and Pether. First published in several portions, more than a century since, and now collected and republished by John Weale. London: 1858-9.
Marks and inscriptions
Above the image: 4 Different Designs for Doors Arch'd or otherways, in the Corinthian Order. Down the right-hand side of the image: Ab. Swan del. to Act
Object history
Old English and French Ornaments; comprising 244 Designs, on 105 plates, of elaborate examples of hall glasses, picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture, ornaments for brass workers and silver workers, rich ornamental ironwork patterns, and for carvers, modellers, &c. &c. &c. by Chippendale, Inigo Jones, Johnson, Lock, and Pether. First published in several portions, more than a century since, and now collected and republished by John Weale. London: 1858-9.

This volume (museum numbers E. 3791-1907 to E. 3914-1907) is formed of re-issues from plates engraved from the work of nine Georgian designers, two of whom are unidentified. The designers of the plates and the print suites in which the plates were first published are as follows:

Thomas Johnson:
Untitled when first appeared in book form: fifty-two plates illustrating ‘Glass, Picture, and Table Frames, Chimney Pieces, Gerondoles, Candle-Stands, Clock-Cases, Brackets, and other Ornaments in the Chinese, Gothick, and Rural Taste’, London, 1758. Re-issued in 1761, with one additional plate, as One Hundred and Fifty New Designs, by Thos. Johnson Carver. Consisting of Ceilings, Chimney-Pieces, Slab Glass and Picture Frames, Stands for China, etc.; Clock and Watch cases, Girandoles, Brackets, Grates, Lanthorns, etc. etc. The whole well adapted for Decorating all kinds of Ornamental Furniture, in the Present Taste. Engraved on 56 Copper plates … Sold by Robert Sayer, at the Golden Buck, near Serjeants Inn in Fleet Street, London.
E. 3794-1907 (re-lettered with a different title by John Weale), E. 3795-1907 to E. 3816-1907, E. 3818-1907 to E. 3837-1907, E. 3839-1907 to E. 3840-1907, E. 3842-1907, E. 3872-1907 to E. 3873-1907, E. 3876-1907 to E. 3881-1907, E. 3899-1907, E. 3905-1907, E. 3908-1907 to E. 3914-1907

Inigo Jones ?
E. 3838-1907, E. 3843-1907 to E. 3850-1907

Copland:
A New Book of Ornaments, c. 1762
E. 3841-1907

Matthew Darly:
55 Vases by Darly, published by Matthew Darly on 31 August 1770
E. 3851-1907 to E. 3867-1907

Thomas Pether:
A Book of Ornaments Suitable for Beginners by Thomas Pether, Carver, London 1773
E. 3792-1907, E. 3868-1907 to E. 3871-1907

Matthias Lock:
A Book of Ornaments, Drawn & Engrav’d by M. Lock, Principally adapted for Carvers, but generally usefull for various Decorations in the Present Taste. 1831 re-issue by John Weale from the lost original.
E. 3793-1907
A New Drawing Book of Ornaments, Shields, Compartments, Masks, &c, Drawn & Engrav’d By M. Lock., first edition c. 1746
E. 3874-1907 to E. 3875-1907, E. 3900-1907 to E. 3904-1907, E. 3906-1907 to E. 3907-1907

Unknown designer:
E. 3882-1907 to E. 3887-1907

Unknown designer:
E. 3888-1907

Abraham Swan:
Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs for chimney pieces; From the Plain and Simple, to the most Superb and Magnificent, Properly adapted to Rooms, Halls, Saloons, Lobbies & Of every Dimension. Published by Robert Sayer 1768
E. 3889-1907 to E. 3898-1907


Bibliographic reference
Hayward, Helena, Thomas Johnson and English Rococo, London 1964 Reid, Dick, 'Thomas Pether's 'Book of Ornaments', 1773', Furniture History, Vol. 11 (1975), pp. 46-47
Collection
Accession number
E.3898-1907

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