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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 54

This object consists of 50 parts, some of which may be located elsewhere.

Railings

ca. 1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Object Type
Wrought iron baluster with foliate decoration. This baluster is part of a large staircase. Another part of it (museum no. M.56-1921) can be seen in the Ironwork Gallery (113) and this piece includes similar foliage as well as masks and cloths of estate - motifs common in the work of Jean Tijou.

Place
This baluster comes from 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London which was destroyed by a bomb in 1941. The house was originally built in 1659 and was later rebuilt in 1754 by Sir Robert Taylor (died 1788).

Style
The baluster either pre-dates the 1754 house or was deliberately made to look old fashioned, as both the style and technique of the balusters and balcony made for the house bear a close resemblance to the work of Jean Tijou (active in England 1687 -1712). Whilst there is nothing to prove that this baluster is the work of Tijou it was certainly created in his style and, if dating from 1754, attests to his lasting influence.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 50 parts.

  • Bannister
  • Panel
  • Railing
  • Railing
  • Railing
  • Railing
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Bannister
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Step
  • Fragments
  • Bannister
  • Balustrade
  • Balustrade
  • Balustrade
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Baluster
  • Bannister
Materials and techniques
Wrought iron
Brief description
Baluster from a staircase in a house in Lincoln's Inn Fields
Dimensions
  • Height: 110cm
  • Width: 25cm
Credit line
Given by the Honourable Bedford Level Corporation
Object history
From a house at 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields, re-built in 1754; possibly made at that time in an earlier style.
Production
From a house at 35, Lincoln's Inn Fields, re-built in 1754; possibly made at that time in an earlier style
Summary
Object Type
Wrought iron baluster with foliate decoration. This baluster is part of a large staircase. Another part of it (museum no. M.56-1921) can be seen in the Ironwork Gallery (113) and this piece includes similar foliage as well as masks and cloths of estate - motifs common in the work of Jean Tijou.

Place
This baluster comes from 35 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London which was destroyed by a bomb in 1941. The house was originally built in 1659 and was later rebuilt in 1754 by Sir Robert Taylor (died 1788).

Style
The baluster either pre-dates the 1754 house or was deliberately made to look old fashioned, as both the style and technique of the balusters and balcony made for the house bear a close resemblance to the work of Jean Tijou (active in England 1687 -1712). Whilst there is nothing to prove that this baluster is the work of Tijou it was certainly created in his style and, if dating from 1754, attests to his lasting influence.
Bibliographic references
  • Gardner, John Starkie. Ironwork. Part 3: A complete survey of the artistic working of iron in Great Britain from the earliest times. London : Published under the authority of the H.M.S.O., 1922. 198 p., 46 p. of plates, ill. ISBN 0905209028. figs.45-46, p.146
  • Höver, Otto. Das Eisenwerk: Die Kunstformen des Schmiedeeisens vom Mittelalter bis zum ausgang des 18 Jahrhunderts. Tubingen, 1961.
  • Ayrton, Maxwell and Arnold Silcock. Wrought iron and its decorative use. London: Country Life, ltd; New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1929. 4 pl., 196 p., ill. fig.116
  • Baur-Heinhold, Margarete. Schmiedeeisen : Gitter, Tore u. Geländer. München: Callwey, 1977. 176 p., ill. ISBN 3766704079 fig.153
  • Encyclopaedia of Ironwork: Examples of hand wrought iron from the Middle Ages to the end of the Eighteenth century. 1927. pl.199.
  • Ingram, H. V. Wrought-iron Gates. Country Life. Jan. 20th 1950. pp. 156-157.
  • Dawson, N. English Iron Railings, Gates etc of XVII and XVIII Centuries. pp.17-22.
Collection
Accession number
M.56-1921

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Record createdMarch 27, 2003
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