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[Set of plates from Ackermann's Repository illustrating furniture and furnishings, 1816-1828.]

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Description: A selection of the furniture plates from Ackermann's 'The repository of fine arts,' the magazine which disseminated current ideas and taste in the arts, dress, decoration and architecture during the Regency period, especially those featuring the designs of individual cabinet-makers and craftsmen. The plates include a wide variety of furniture, furnishing and interior design such as chairs, sofas and day beds, tables, a large selection and variety of beds, with their hangings, book cases and library desks, chests and bureau, a wide variety of window hangings, numerous examples of mantle pieces, and specialty pieces such as globes, ladders, a pianoforte, music and artists furniture, and pier tables and glasses. The plates are mounted on large sheets of paper.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1809-1828]
Call number: 610180
Creator: Ackermann, Rudolph (1764-1834)(Opens in new tab)

Victorian needlepoint

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A selection of Victorian patterns inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement for cross-stitching pillows, rugs, chair coverings, and wall hangings.

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Gould, Thomas furniture and furnishings

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The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.

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Portable furniture design drawings

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Set of 51 pencil drawings on drafting paper of portable furniture and miscellaneous furnishings and fittings designed by Jack Heaney and Associates for the public rooms, passenger staterooms, and senior officer quarters of the NS Savannah. The drawings include front and side elevations, plan views, and design and material specifications, quantities, and placement instructions for items such as chairs, sofas, tables, beds, and dressers. The first 48 drawings, measuring 11 x 17 in., were compiled in March 1959 and the last two were added in March 1961.

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The art of illuminating as practised in Europe from the earliest times : illustrated by borders, initial letters, and alphabets

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Wyatt was an architect who was a principal organizer of the Exhibition of 1851, after which he worked with I. K. Brunel and Owen Jones designing architecture, wallpaper, furniture, carpets, tiles, etc. He was made the first Slade Professor of fine arts at Cambridge in 1869. William Robert Tymms designed plates and covers for a number of books. The plates for Westwood's "Facsimiles of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts" (1868) were designed by him, as were some of the plates for J. B. Baring's "Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition," 1862.

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Set of 20 plates made from steel engravings, circa 1810

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One set of 20 plates made from steel engravings, ca. 1810. The plates have been disbound from an unnamed book source. Only the first plate is numbered. Most, if not all, of the images are of Biblical figures, such as Jesus, Mary, John and Peter. None of the images are labeled, except for Peter and John, whose names are written below the image in ms., in pencil. The first plate contains numbered geometric and simple head and shoulder drawings. Each of the remaining plates contains two images (head only) per plate. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Limberts Holland Dutch arts and crafts furniture. Booklet no. 114

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Charles Limbert was an American cabinet and furniture maker. A contemporary of Gustav Stickley, Limbert never used the term Craftsman, always preferring to call his designs Dutch, or later Holland Dutch, Arts and Crafts. This catalog was produced not long after the time Limbert's new factory, which he considered to be a healthier environment for his workers, opened in Holland, Michigan in 1906.

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[Set of plates from Ackermann's Repository illustrating furniture and furnishings, 1816-1828.]

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