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Eighteenth-century English silver for King João V of Portugal
08/2024 | 1457 | 166
Pages: 826–833
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Vale, Teresa Leonor M. (Vale, Teresa Leonor M.)
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2. Portrait of Secretary of State Diogo Mendonça Corte Real, by Guillaume François Laurent Debrie. 1730. Engraving. (From Retratos de Cardeaes, Bispos, e Varoens Portuguezes Illustres em Nobreza, Armas, Letras, e Santidade Coordenados nos Mezes de Abril e Maio do Anno do Senhor, Lisbon 1791, fol.40A; Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Secção de Iconografia, Lisbon).
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3. Portrait of King D. João V, by Pompeo Batoni. 18th century. Oil on canvas, 90 by 70 cm. (Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon).
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4. Model of the sculptural group for the funerary monument of Manuel Pereira de Sampaio, by Filippo della Valle. c.1753. Terracotta and paint, height 56.5 cm. (Museu de Lisboa, Lisbon.)
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5. Centrepiece with Neptune, by Paul Crespin and Nicholas Sprimont. 1741–42. Embossed and chiselled gilded silver, 49 by 66 by 47 cm. (© 2024 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
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6. Wine cooler made for Louis Henri de Bourbon, by Gabriel Huquier after Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier. 1748. Engraving, 17.9 by 25.9 cm. (Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New York).
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7. Basin, by Paul Crespin. 1722–23. Silver, height 14.7 cm., diameter 49.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
1. Paul Crespin. British. c.1726. Oil on canvas, 114 by 90 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Book Review
Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 bridges, 1000 years
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 810
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Harrison, David (Harrison, David)
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Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 bridges, 1000 years By Marshall G. Hall. 320 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Windgather Press, Oxford, 2022), £39.95. ISBN 978–1–914427–13–8. | :
Article
The floral marquetry floor at Burghley House
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 752-759
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Bowett, Adam (Bowett, Adam)
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10. Detail of the table illustrated in Fig.6.
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12. Scriptor. c.1685. Walnut and marquetry of various woods on an oak carcase, 263 by 119.5 by 51 cm. (Birmingham Museums Trust).
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13. A marquetry tulip from a cabinet attributed to Jan van Mekeren. c.1700–10. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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14. Detail of the cabinet illustrated in Fig.18, showing the same marquetry tulip.
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15. Butterflies from the commode illustrated in Fig.4 (a and b); the table illustrated in Fig.6 (c); the cabinet illustrated in Fig.18 (d).
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16 and 17. Details from J. Jonston: Historiae Naturalis de Insectis Libri III, Amsterdam 1657, pls.viii and vi, showing the sources for the butterflies shown in Fig.15.
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18. Cabinet, attributed to Jan van Mekeren. c.1695–1710. Walnut and marquetry of various woods on an oak carcase, 205.5 by 174 by 61 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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2. Table, here attributed to Mayhew and Ince. c.1767. Oak and other woods, the top made from the centre of a 17th-century marquetry floor, 76.5 by 149 by 125.5 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford).
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3. Corner commode, one of a pair, supplied by Mayhew and Ince. 1767. Mahogany and other woods with gilt brass, incorporating 17th-century marquetry, 97 by 100 by 61.5 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford).
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4. Commode, one of a pair, supplied by Mayhew and Ince. 1767. Mahogany and other woods with gilt brass, incorporating 17th-century marquetry, 97.5 by 145 by 72 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford).
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5. Folding writing table, attributed to Gerrit Jensen. c.1685. Walnut and other woods and bone, 75 by 86.5 by 29.5 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford).
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6. Top of a table, attributed to Gerrit Jensen. c.1686. Walnut and other woods and bone, 73 by 106 by 83.5 cm. (Windsor Castle; Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022).
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7. Top of the writing table illustrated in in Fig.5.
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8. Top of a candlestand, one of a pair, attributed to Gerrit Jensen. c.1686. Walnut and other woods with bone, diameter 43cm. (Hampton Court Palace; Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022; photograph the author).
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9. Marquetry tulips from (a) the oval table illustrated in Fig.2; (b) the writing table illustrated in Figs.5 and 7; (c) the commode illustrated in Fig.4); and (d) the table illustrated in Fig.6.
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1. The Inlaid Closet, Drayton House, Northamptonshire. c.1685–90. Veneers of walnut and other woods on an oak substrate. (Courtesy Drayton House, Northamptonshire).
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11. Detail of the scriptor illustrated in Fig.12.
Article
A design for the mystery of Freemasonry
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 611-613
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Medlam, Sarah (Medlam, Sarah)
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12. Master’s chair for the Royal Lodge of Freemasons, London, and mace for the Euphrates Lodge of the Noble Order of Bucks, by Simon Hennekin. 1767. Pen-and-ink and coloured wash on paper, 30 by 21.5 cm. (© and courtesy Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London).
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13. Trade card of Simon Hennekin. Probably 1770s. Engraving, 11.1 by 15.5 cm. (From the album ‘Upwards of Four Hundred Different Coats of Arms Collected by Simon Hennekin Carver Edward Street Soho London 1766’, Winterthur Library, Wilmington DE).
Book Review
English Silver of the 16th–20th Centuries: The Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. By Natalia Abramova
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 357-358
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Schroder, Timothy (Schroder, Timothy)
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English Silver of the 16th–20th Centuries: The Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums By Natalia Abramova. 435 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Moscow Kremlin Museums, 2018), 5000RUB. ISBN 978–5–88678–334–6. | :
Book Review
The Great East Window of York Minster: An English Masterpiece. By Sarah Brown
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 253-254
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Mitchell, Oliver (Mitchell, Oliver)
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The Great East Window of York Minster: An English Masterpiece by Sarah Brown | :
Exhibition Review
Opus Anglicanum. London
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 56-57
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Coatsworth, Elizabeth (Coatsworth, Elizabeth)
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49. The creation of birds and animals, from the Holkham Bible Picture Book, England. c.1330-40 (The British Library, London, Add. MS 47682, fol.2v; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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50. Chasuble with embroidered orphreys. England. 1434-36 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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51. The Bologna cope. England. 1310-20 (Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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52. St Michael slaying the dragon, detail of the Syon cope. England. 1310-20 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Article
An admonitory wall painting at the Tower of London
12/2016 | 1365 | 158
Pages: 940-949
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Spooner, Jane (Spooner, Jane)
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3. A True and Exact Draught of the Tower Liberties, survey'd 1597, by Gulielmus Haiward and J. Gascoyne, by George Vertue. 1742. Engraving, for Vetusta monumenta, I (1747), pl.63
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9. Detail of Richard II, by Thomas Glazier. c.1396-97 (Winchester College Chapel, Winchester)
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1. West elevation of the Byward Tower at the Tower of London. Late 1370s
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10. St John the Baptist, detail of Fig.2
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11. St Michael, detail of Fig.2
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12. St Michael, from a Book of Hours, fol.24. c.1390s (Bibliothèque Municipale, Boulogne-sur-Mer, MS.93)
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13. Devils, detail of Fig.2
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2. Crucifixion with saints. c.1390s (Byward Tower, Tower of London)
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4. Interior of the Byward Tower, looking south
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5. Detail of an angel with hurdy-gurdy. c.1390s (Westminster Abbey Chapter House)
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6. Detail of a painted ceiling beam. c.1280s-1390s (Byward Tower, Tower of London)
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7. Detail of a lady, c.1397. Formerly in St Osyth's Priory (Colchester Castle Museum)
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8. The Wilton Diptych. c.1397? (National Gallery, London)
Book Review
Armour of the English Knight 1400–1450, by Tobias Capwell
10/2016 | 1363 | 158
Pages: 828-829
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Terjanian, Pierre (Terjanian, Pierre)
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61. Detail of the tomb of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, in his armour. c.1425 (Collegiate church of St Mary the Virgin, Staindrop, County Durham)
Book Review
Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945–1975, by Elain Harwood
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 745-746
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Hopkins, Owen (Hopkins, Owen)
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43. Woman bewitched by the moon, by Stanley Clifford-Smith. 1960s (Private collection)
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