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Designs for Picture-frames, Candelabra, Chimney pieces, etc.

Print
1758 (first published)
Artist/Maker
Thomas Johnson (Designer)
Robert Sayer (Publisher)
Butler Clowes (Printmaker)
Place of origin
London (Published)

Page from a volume of etchings


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
TitleDesigns for Picture-frames, Candelabra, Chimney pieces, etc. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on paper
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Thomas Johnson (after), 1 of 56 plates (comprising 2 dedicatory pages, 1 contents page and 53 etched designs), Designs for Glass and Picture Frames, Candelabra, Chimney-pieces, Ceilings, etc.' London, 1758.
Physical description
Page from a volume of etchings
Dimensions
  • Volume height: 36.7cm (Note: Average page size)
  • Volume width: 25cm (Note: Average page size)
Dimensions taken from Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983
Subjects depicted
Overmantel Mirrors
Scrolling Foliage
Fantasy
Frames
Rococo
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 520, 23 (1).
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 1228.
  • Snodin, Michael (ed.), assisted by Elspeth Moncrieff, Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth’s England (exh. cat.: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 16 May – 30 September 1984), 176.
  • Hayward, Helena, Thomas Johnson and English Rococo, London 1964.
  • Hayward, Helena, 'Newly-discovered Designs by Thomas Johnson', Furniture History, Vol. 11 (1975), pp. 40-42.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3751-1903

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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