Furniture design
Design Drawing
ca.1860 (made)
ca.1860 (made)
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Elevation, section and full-size details of an elaborate picture frame, probably for a painting of the Virgin and Child, to be executed by J.G. Crace, and lists of inscriptions to go on the frame.
Object details
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| Title | Furniture design |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink over pencil with some brown wash |
| Brief description | Design for a frame; full size working drawing by Edward Welby Pugin. Pen and ink over pencil with brown wash, ca. 1860. |
| Physical description | Elevation, section and full-size details of an elaborate picture frame, probably for a painting of the Virgin and Child, to be executed by J.G. Crace, and lists of inscriptions to go on the frame. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed 'all in low relief, very delicate / The fleur de lis may be stronger than / the rest. The roses also a little / more marked in prominence'; with several details of construction, measurements and colours marked; 'arrangements of inscriptions; left side / The Holy which shall / be born of thee / shall be called the Son of God; Behold a Virgin shall / conceive and have a Son / and He shall be / called Emanuel; right side / He shall be great / and shall be called / the son of the / Most High; and He shall reign / in the House / of Jacob / for ever; Top / A star / shall arise / out of Jacob; and a sceptre / shall spring / out of Israel; Bottom / Among the Lillies [sic] / moveth in haste / the lilly [sic] of Israel; to make known to / others the word / whish [sic] is conceived within her'. |
| Object history | The inscriptions are set against a background of flowers, lilies and perhaps cyclamens. There are roses set within quatrefoils at each corner and the middle of each side. There is an outer border of fleur-de-lys and an inner one of stars. |
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| Accession number | E.1490-1912 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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