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Allegorical Devices

Design
1795 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bowles and Carver (publisher)
Terry, Garnet (artist)
Place of origin
London (engraving (printing process))

Designs for memorials and lockets using human hair. One of eight plates in the 'Allegorical Devices' pattern book. This plate contains twenty-five oval-shaped designs, each numbered 1-25.

Object details

Categories
Designs
Death
Hair and Hairstyles
Jewellery
Pattern Books
Object type
Design
Titles
  • Allegorical Devices (popular title)
  • A book of new & allegorical devices, for artists in general, & particularly for jewellers, enamel painters, pattern drawers &c. containing two hundred elegant historical ornamental and fancied subjects (published title)
Materials and techniques
Ink on paper
Paper
Ink
Engraving (Printing Process)
Brief description
Engraving by Garnet Terry. Plate containing designs from "Allegorical Devices" London, 1795.
Physical description
Designs for memorials and lockets using human hair. One of eight plates in the 'Allegorical Devices' pattern book. This plate contains twenty-five oval-shaped designs, each numbered 1-25.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26cm
  • Width: 20.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • London, Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. (Printed on a curve underneath the designs.)
  • HAIR DEVICES. (Printed bottom centre.)
  • Published 29 Sept. 1795. (Printed bottom right.)
Production
Price 7s 6d. London: Printed for the Proprietors, Bowles & Carver No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. Just Published Terry's Complete Round of Cyphers, consisting of 600 examples. Price 6s.
Subjects depicted
Death
Hair
Hair Ornaments
Allegorical Figures
Mourning
Mourning Jewelry
Pattern Books
Tombs
Trees, Willow
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3386-1903

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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