Drawings, [ca.1780-ca.1810]

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Drawings, [ca.1780-ca.1810]

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Consists of 206 watercolors and 43 pencil and wash drawings of furniture, chandeliers, upholstery, and draperies. Drawings are numbered and initialed, "E.S." Styles represented run the gamut from late Chippendale to Regency. The drawings were presumably copied from an earlier work as the paper they are on bears the watermark of a Dutch paper making firm that began production in 1845. It has been suggested that the drawings are fragments of an earlier job book.

127 octavo sheets : ill.(some col.)

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Gillow & Co.

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Gillow and Co. was a provincial English furniture making firm based in Lancaster from approximately 1730 to at least 1931; the firm was also active in London. It grew from a small cabinet shop to a large national furniture firm during the 18th century. The drawings of pattern books reveal the firm's ready response to fashionable demand, suggesting that much labeled "Sheraton" or "Hepplewhite" is in fact the product of Gillow. The firm also engaged in architectural joinery and repair work. It exp...