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A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800.

Drawing
1798 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a throne for Weeks' Mechanical Museum, part of a volume of designs for furniture, interior decorations and architectural fittings.


Object details

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Object type
TitleA Miscellaneous Collection of Original Designs, made, and for the most part executed, during an extensive Practice of many years in the first line of his Profession, by John Linnell, Upholsterer Carver & Cabinet Maker. Selected from his Portfolio's at his Decease, by C. H. Tatham Architect. AD 1800. (series title)
Materials and techniques
pencil, pen and wash
Brief description
Design for a throne, from a volume of designs for furniture, interior decoration and architectural fittings, by C. H. Tatham, Great Britain, 1798
Physical description
Design for a throne for Weeks' Mechanical Museum, part of a volume of designs for furniture, interior decorations and architectural fittings.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.375in
  • Width: 13.375in
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Marks and inscriptions
  • ---atham Archt No 6. Charles street Grosvenor Square. Decr 1798.
  • (No 1) A Design for the Throne of Week's Mechanical Museum
Object history
Weeks' Mechanical Museum, containing clocks and mechanical novelties, opened in around 1803 at 3 Tichborne Street, Haymarket. Tatham designed this throne for its opening.

Neg no: 44 3763. CT available.
Associations
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Collection
Accession number
E.400-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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