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Title:
Memorial brass to Sir Arthur William Blomfield
Object name(s):
Drawing
Brief description:
Design for a memorial brass. Signed and dated by the artist.
Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Associated concept:
Designs
Associated concept:
Drawings
Content - concept:
memorials
Credit line:
Given by the Artist
Current reproduction location:
https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018KV8061/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:
Thumbnail
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
24.125
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
18
Inscription content:
J.D. Crace, Dec. 1901
Material:
ink
Object history note:
Presented by J.D. Crace
Object name:
Drawing
Object number:
E.1948-1912
Object production date:
December 1901
Date - association:
made
Date - earliest / single:
1901-12-01
Date - latest:
1901-12-31
Object production person:
Crace, John Dibblee
Object production place:
London
Place association:
made
Physical description:
Design for a memorial brass. Signed and dated by the artist.
Reproduction number:
2018KV8061
Responsible department/section:
PDP
Technique:
drawing
Technique:
Ink drawing
Text reason:
Collections online record
Text:
John Dibblee Crace first came to public notice through his Gothic- and Renaissance-style furniture for the International Exhibition of 1862. His clients included the 4th Marquess of Bath for whom he redocorated Longleat, and William Waldorf Astor who commissioned him to decorate Cliveden (ca. 1895). The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in Britain in the 19th century. They worked for every British monarch from George III to Queen Victoria and on a range of buildings that includes royal palaces, Leeds Town Hall and the Great Exhibition building of 1862.
Text reason:
Summary description
User's reference:
Reference:
Megan Aldrich, The Craces: royal decorators 1768-1899, London, Murray, 1990.
User's reference:
Reference:
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1912, London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1913

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9d7becb6-9554-35fa-a478-3cd1db40421c

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9d7becb6-9554-35fa-a478-3cd1db40421c, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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