Object: Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper

Title:

Brunell's Patent Metallic Paper

Object name(s):

print; print

Brief description:

Handbill with samples: [headed] New Series No. XLI. May 1819. [Beneath image] Brunell's Patent metallick paper / R Ackermann's Lithography. [London]. Lithograph, with silver, green, red, and gold metallic paper samples adhered; 23.5x14.5cm. - From Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, Series 2, Volume 7, Part 41, May 1819. Advertising, by Royal command? as samples are numbered 1-4 blocks on monument reflecting their surrounding figures of Britannia, Neptune, a Lion, an oyster shell, beneath a theatrical pediment and curtains and royal coat of arms. [NB: the patent is possibly Marc Isambard Brunel, British Patent 4301, 5 November 1818: 'Tin-foil, capable of large and varied crystallisation']

Collection:

Science Museum Group

Associated concept:

print

Credit line:

Grosvenor Prints

Dimension:

height

Dimension measurement unit:

in

Dimension value:

9 1/4

Dimension:

height

Dimension measurement unit:

mm

Dimension value:

235

Dimension:

width

Dimension measurement unit:

in

Dimension value:

5 11/16

Dimension:

width

Dimension measurement unit:

mm

Dimension value:

145

Material:

paper

Material:

metal

Object name:

print; print

Object production date:

Date - earliest / single:

1819

Date - latest:

1819

Object production date:

Date - association:

made

Date - earliest / single:

1819

Date - latest:

1819

Object production person:

Ackermann and Company

Object production place:

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Other number:

1986-1180

Other number type:

accession number

Responsible department/section:

SCM - Art

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5785fb6f-7023-3ccd-a33b-c75832b09ccf

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5785fb6f-7023-3ccd-a33b-c75832b09ccf, Science Museum Group, CC BY

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