The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Symonds, R. W. (Robert Wemyss), 1889-1958                                            

Title:               Research Papers

Dates:             1910-1958

Call No.:         Col. 57           

Acc. No.:        75x69, 65x35, 98x71, 98x72; 07x126; 10x28, 11x42

Quantity:        ca. 124 boxes, 13 volumes

Location:        17 C 1-2 and D 1-6; map case 2, drawer 8; Series II in DAPC

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Robert Wemyss Symonds was the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture.  As well, he served as a consultant to museums and private collectors, including Colonial Williamsburg and Francis P. Garvan; was a prolific writer; and was an architect (F.R.I.B.A. and F.S.A.), working for a time in partnership with Robert Lutyens, the son of Sir Edwin Lutyens.  Although he wrote much about antique furniture, Symonds designed pieces in a modern style and tried to promote a “Modern English Traditional School.”  He was active from 1910 to 1958.  His many books and articles cover subjects such as collecting English furniture, clocks, interior design, craftsmen, and fakes.

 

Robert Symonds was born on December 31, 1889, the son of the artists William Robert and Margaret Hogg Swan Symonds.  He was educated at St. Paul’s School and then trained as an architect.  Symonds married Daphne Loveland in 1921, and they had two daughters.  His daughter Virginia served as a research assistant for him.  Following Daphne’s death, he married Monica Sheila Harrington, who survived him after his death in September 1958.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

This collection contains notes and correspondence collected by R. W. Symonds, with the assistance of his daughter Virginia Evans.  Extracts, mostly typescript copies, of items gleaned from various early British and Irish newspapers, ca. 1660-1742, contain information about craftsmen, their bills, advertisements, and some inventories. Notebooks contain information on the various forms of furniture and decorative arts. Photo albums show early forms of English furniture.  Symonds’ correspondence, much of it from the 1950s, documents efforts to publish books, conduct research, build collections for private individuals and museums, especially Colonial Williamsburg, and his efforts to judge the authenticity of antique furniture.  Scrapbooks of clippings include articles written by Symonds, as well as articles on topics of interest to him, including furniture, clocks, and postwar city planning.  Several articles are about interiors designed by Symonds, mostly with a modern (1930s) flair. 

 

Also included in the collection are three volumes of photographs published by the London decorating firm of Lenygon & Co., Ltd., ca. 1908.  One volume features views of the firm’s place of business, while the second and third volumes show armchairs, tables, and desks available from the company.  Some of these photos appear in the books The Decoration of English Mansions during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Furniture in England from 1660 to 1760, both by Francis Lenygon.  A trade catalog from the Irish furniture makers Arthur J. Jones, Son, and Co. and a catalog from the Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris were probably collected while doing research for a book about Victorian furniture, which was completed by B. B. Whineray after Symonds’ death.

 

As well, the collection includes several incomplete copies of The Universal Magazine from the 1748-1767, and an assortment of 18th-early 19th century engravings, mostly removed from magazines or books.  The issues of The Universal Magazine include some plates dealing with science and mechanics.  Some embroidery patterns were removed from the 18th century English publication The Lady’s Magazine.   Also found are eleven issues of London newspapers from the 1770s to the 1790s and one issue of a newspaper from Jersey, dated 1840.

 

Series II of this collection contains photographs and copies of Symonds’ articles.  Roughly ninety per cent of the photographs depict English furniture and clocks, primarily made in the late 17th through early19th centuries.  Other subjects include objects from the Percival Griffiths silver collection, some textiles, scientific instruments, and non-English furniture.   Eleven boxes hold clock and watch photographs.  Although vernacular forms like Windsor chairs are represented, the strength of the collection is high style pieces.  The information sheets filed with the photographs note the articles and books in which the photographs were used as illustrations.  Approximately 150 photographs show Symonds’ modern work as an architectural consultant and interior designer.  

           

 

ORGANIZATION

           

The collection is in two series; the papers in the Downs Collection are in Series I.  The photos and articles housed in DAPC are in Series II.  The papers in Series I are roughly in accession number order.  The photos in Series II are divided by subject (chairs, tables, silver, textiles, etc.); the photos of furniture are then arranged chronologically by style.  Symonds’ articles are filed alphabetically by title.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

Most of the materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

65x35: purchased from Malcolm Stearns, Jr.

75x69: Purchased from Sotheby & Co., London, England.

98x71 and 98x72: Transferred from DAPC.

07x125: gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ian Evans (Mrs. Evans is daughter of Mr. Symonds).

10x28: gift of Mrs. Virginia Evans (Mrs. Evans is daughter of Mr. Symonds).

11x42: gift of Mrs. Virginia Evans (Mrs. Evans is daughter of Mr. Symonds).

 

 

RELATED MATERIALS

 

Photographs collected by Symonds are located in the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection.

 

Some reels of microfilm, Mic. 270-285, were purchased from Sotheby & Co. as part of the Symonds Collection.

 

Books by Symonds may be found by consulting WinterCat.

 

Bibliography of articles, book reviews, books, and other writings by Symonds was published in the journal Furniture History, vol. 11, p. 88-107 (1975).  The bibliography was compiled by Colin Streeter and Margaret Barker.  The bibliography excludes Symonds’ newspaper articles and materials relating to his career as an architect and designer.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

            People:

                        Tompion, Thomas, 1639-1713.

Wynn family.

 

Topics:

            Lenygon & Co., Ltd.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation – Art collections.

Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

            Retail trade - England.

            Furniture making.

            Furniture – Photographs.

            Furniture industry and trade.

            Interior decoration.

            Textile fabrics - England.

            Inventories of decedents' estates - England.

Inventories of decedents' estates – Virginia.

            Clocks and watches - England.

            Invoices - England.

            Newspapers.

            Artisans - England.

            Business records - England.

Antiques – Expertising.

Art deco – Great Britain.

Synagogues – England - London.

Furniture, Victorian.

Publishers and publishing.

Embroidery patterns – England.

Scientific apparatus and instruments - 18th century - Pictorial works.

Astronomical instruments - 18th century - Pictorial works.

Quarries and quarrying - Pictorial works.

Magazine illustration.

Illustration of books.

            England - Social life and customs - 17th century.

            England - Social life and customs - 18th century.

England - Social life and customs – 1066-1485.

            Notebooks.

            Photoprints.

Trade catalogs.

Engravings.

Newspapers.

            Artisans.

            Architects.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 17 C 1-2 and D 1-6; map case 2, drawer 8; Series II is in DAPC

 

 

Series I: Research papers

 

(Note: all accession numbers in Series I begin with 75x69, unless otherwise specified.)

 

Box 1: 

.1         Notebook: Almeries, cupboards, presses, cupboard cloths, cabinets, chests of drawers

            .2         Notebook: Clocks & watches

            .3         Notebook: Joiners, furniture, carvers, clocks

            .4         Notebook: Beds, chairs, stools, forms, benches & settles, coverings

            .5         Notebook: Bedsteads, chair coverings, beds,

            .6         Notebook: Chests, cupboards, etc. (chests, arks, forcers, coffers, trunks, standards, males, almaries & ambrys, cup-boards and cupboards, court cupboards, presses, livery cupboards, hutches, boxes, cradels [sic], cupboard cloths,

 

 

Box 2:

.7         Notebook: Chests, coffers, drawers

            .8         Notebook: Chairs, stools, forms

            .9         Notebook: livery cupboards, court cupboards, almeries, tables, chairs, cupboards, forms & benches, beds, clocks

.10       Notebook: Tables, tablecloths & carpets, dressers, tables – pictures, boards & tables

.11       Notebook: Tables: trestle frame & drawer, folding & gate-leg tables, round tables, tables – various, counters, tables – playing, chair-tables, dressing boards, sideboards, table cloths, desks, games,

.12       Notebook: Furniture & craftsmen: joiners, chimneys, forcer-maker, coffer maker, painter, gilder, turner, writing, eating, embroidery, tapicier, stainer, dressing, beds & sleeping, close-stools, carver, lighting, library, games, children, carpets, tapestry, Renaissance, livery, Flanders [no notes], transport, London, domestic comfort

 

 

Box 3:

.13      Notebook: Bills of various craftsmen, especially joiners, cabinetmakers, coffer makers, upholsterers, carvers, and gilders (late 1500s-1600s)

             .14      Notebook: Bills of various craftsmen; Great Wardrobe, 1699-1700s

 

 

Box 4: 

.15       Notebook: Bills of various craftsmen; Great Wardrobe, 1729-1768

            .16       Notebook: Bills of various craftsmen, 1500s-early 1600s

 

 

Box 5:

.17-.18             Notebooks: Bills of various craftsmen, 1600s-1700s; lists of furniture sold at auction; transcriptions of papers from the Public Record Office (1600s); lists of ships’ cargoes sold

 

 

Box 6: 

.28       Notebook: Bills for furniture, textiles, furnishings, etc.; 15th century inventories; court records, late 1600s

            .31       typescripts of notices from various newspapers (London Gazette and others): 1726-1742 (3 folders)

 

 

Box 7: 

.20       Advertisements of cabinetmakers (see also .19 in Box 10)

            .21-.22   Newspaper advertisements for furniture

            .23-.24   Newspaper advertisements for clocks & watches, 18th century

            .25       Notebook: Inventories of cabinetmakers and joiners; wardrobe accounts; craftsmen bills; Carpentry Guild regulations, late 1500s

 

 

Box 8: 

.26a     notes extracted from the journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia; notes on the  English Plantations in America, especially concerning the exchange of raw materials and manufactured products, ca.1697-1770

            .26b     Notebook: early English inventories

            .27       Bills of craftsmen, especially cabinetmakers and joiners, ca.1678-1708

            .29       typescripts of notices from various newspapers (London Gazette and others), 1660-1708

 

 

Box 9: 

            .30       typescripts of notices from various newspapers (London Gazette and others), 1709-1725 (2 folders)

            .33       typescripts of notices from various newspapers, ca.1694-1750, some in regard to wood from North America (e.g. black walnut from North Carolina) (3 folders)

.39       Norfolk Chronicle (1776-1781), Norwich or Norfolk Chronicle (1781-1783), York Chronicle (1774-1784), York Courant (1774-1775), plus other newspapers: citations to furniture

 

 

Box 10:

            .19       Advertisements of cabinetmakers

.32       Notebook: Newspapers (ca.1660-1760), notes from public works, shipping costs (ca.1725-1746)

.35       Ipswich-Journal or the Weekly Mercury, etc., newspaper citations to furniture, ca.1730-?

.36       Kentish Post (1726-1769), Newcastle Chronicle (1768), Nottingham Journal (1783-1785), Ipswich Journal (1721-1747), Leeds Intelligencer (1777-1779), Oxford Gazette and Reading Mercury (1771-1773), Jacksons Oxford Journal (1751-1779): citations to furniture

.37       Bury & Norwich Post (1794-1796), Bristol Journal (1772-1799), Manchester Mercury (1766-1767), Prescott’s Manchester Journal (1771-1774), Ariss Birmingham Gazette (1801), Stamford Mercury (1722-1728), Lincoln Rutland & Stamford Mercury (1785-1792): citations to furniture

 

 

Box 11: 

.34       extracts from Irish and Scottish newspapers, especially regarding furniture, clocks and watches, ca.1709-1761; an inventory (3 folders)

.41       Derby Mercury (1790-1795), Northampton Mercury (1720-1745), Oxford Gazette and Reading Mercury (1753-1771), York Mercury & York Chronicle (1770-1774), Ipswich Journal (1720-1747), Lincoln Rutland & Stamford Mercury (1785-1792), Schofield’s Middlewich Journal or Cheshire Advertiser (1756-1784), Nottingham Journal (1783-1785), Jacksons Oxford Journal (1751-1779): citations to furniture

 

 

Box 12: 

.38       Bury Post (1782-1784), Bristol Gazette (1855), Kentish Gazette (1830), and various printed book and magazine extracts: citations to furniture (2 folders)

            .40       Derby Mercury (1789-1795) and other newspapers: citations to furniture

            .42       Notebook: Craftsmen and objects, including a section on glass (most references are to 17th century or earlier)

 

 

Box 13: 

.43       Notebook: Craftsmen and objects

.46       Notebook: Reference to United States and other areas in western hemisphere, primarily form printed sources

 

 

Box 14: 

.44       Notes - Craftsmen and objects

.45       Notebook - References to United States and other areas in western hemisphere, primarily from printed sources

.54       Correspondence: Duke and Duchess of Chandos with John Wood, re: houses they planned for the site of St. Johns Hospital, 1727 [originals at Huntington Library]

            [part of 75x69]            Miscellaneous materials, mostly about clocks and watches

 

 

Box 15:          

.47       Notes from 14th century craftsmen bills

.48       newspaper ads for lost or stolen items, chiefly small objects of gold or silver, ca.1662-1705

.49       alphabetical list of English tradesmen, gleaned form newspapers, ca.1716-1794,  mostly watch and clock makers

            .50       Symonds' report on furniture at Colonial Williamsburg, ca.1950

            .52       Letters to Symonds and others about clocks; plus typescripts of Symonds’ comments on Thomas Tompion clocks

            .53       Magazine clippings, especially about clocks

 

65x35              Correspondence between Newton C. Brainard and R.W. Symonds, May-Sept., 1941.  Concerns the national origin of decorative designs on the "Sunflower" and "Hadley" chests.

 

 

Box 16:

 

98x72  Portfolio of photographs, etc., contents as follows:

            2 pages showing different kinds of furniture joins;

            photo of a page from an illuminated manuscript;

            four photos of a petition signed by members of the Company of Clockmakers during the reign of William and Mary;

            printed photo showing front and back of a chest;

            photos of various clocks, mounted on 11 leaves;

            2 photos of a rococo wall sconce;

            number of loose, blank leaves;

            photo of a carpet, with an inscription on back, dated 1931;

            photo of a mirror on a stand;

            photo of a model sailing ship;

            pamphlet entitled “Origine de l’Horloge a poids,” by Ch. Fremont, Paris, 1915, with a letter pasted inside (Allan Gomme, Patent Office Library, to Mr. Robertson, June 6, 1924)

            postcard of an unidentified mansion (perhaps in England) and its formal garden

            “suggestions for framing”

            small engraving with caption “What brought Sr. Visto’s ill got wealth to waste? Some Daemon whispered, Visto! Have a taste”; showing a man being offered paintings, mummies, tusks, and other objects

            small engraving, captioned Cinna, showing a scene in ancient Rome

            small engraving, showing a dying man in his bed, attended by his family and a priest, pointing to a saw hanging on the wall

 

            The album has a trade card for Marcus Adams, photographer of children, London

 

 

Box 17 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folder 1:          Article: “Masterpieces of Neo-Classic Furniture,” with photos and correspondence

 

Folder 2:          Articles, picture captions, notes, including notes about medieval England

 

Folders 3-4:     Articles by R.W.S.: typescripts and drafts

 

Folder 5:          Chairs: articles by R.W.S. from The Connoisseur

 

Folders 6-7:     Clock and watch research and correspondence

 

Folder 8:          Clock book

 

 

Box 18 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folder 1:          Clock book: draft

 

Folder 2:          Clocks (talk or article)

 

Folders 3-4:     Colonial Williamsburg: acquisitions correspondence

 

Folder 5:          Colonial Williamsburg: correspondence

 

Folder 6:          Colonial Williamsburg: photos and notes, invoices

 

Folder 7:          The Connoisseur: R.W.S. correspondence, 1949-1958

                        [includes letter from Joseph Downs, 1952]

 

Folder 8:          Correspondence, A

 

 

Box 19 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folder 1:          Correspondence, B

 

Folder 2:          Correspondence, C-F

 

Folder 3:          Correspondence, G

 

Folder 4:          Correspondence, H

 

Folder 5:          Correspondence, Heal, Ambrose, & B.T. Batsford, Ltd., re: The London Furniture Makers

 

Folder 6:          Correspondence, I-J

 

Folder 7:          Correspondence, K-L

 

 

Box 20 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folder 1:          Correspondence, Lee, Morton (including correspondence about Mr. Lee)

 

Folder 2:          Correspondence, Lee, R.A.

 

Folder 3:          Correspondence, M-O

 

Folder 4:          Correspondence, P-Q

 

Folder 5:          Correspondence, R-Z

 

Folder 6:          Country Life: Correspondence (folder 1 of 3, continued in next box)

 

 

 

Box 21 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folders 1-2:     Country Life: Correspondence (folders 2-3 of 3)

 

Folder 3:          Evans, Virginia: correspondence

                        [Mrs. Evans is a daughter of R.W.S.]

 

Folder 4:          Fassio silver collection and typescript about handicrafts

 

Folder 5:          Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England: correspondence about publishing book, 1952-1953

 

Folder 6:          Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England: correspondence about publishing book, 1954

 

Folder 7:          Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England: correspondence about publishing book, 1955-1956, and undated

 

Folder 8:          History of Technology: correspondence and proof copy of R.W.S. article

 

 

Box 22 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folder 1:          Inventories: Fauquier (1768) and Botetourt (1770), from Virginia

 

Folder 2:          Medieval life: unpublished book by R.W.S.

 

Folders 3-5:     Messer, Samuel: correspondence and invoices, 1953-1958   

 

Folder 6:          Newspaper advertisements, 18th century (transcripts), with many references to clocks and watches, but also references to houses and furniture

 

Folder 7:          Newspaper advertisements, references to paintings and pictures, 17th to early18th centuries (transcripts)

 

Folder 8:          Newspaper advertisements, references to textiles, clothing, and dress accessories, 17th to early18th centuries (transcripts)

 

Folder 9:          Nostell Priory and Winn family: R.W.S. correspondence

 

 

Box 23 (acc. 07x126):

 

Folder 1:          Nostell Priory and Winn family: Thomas Chippendale accounts and correspondence [photostatic copies]

 

Folder 2:          Nostell Priory and Winn family: typescripts of 18th century letters and documents

 

Folder 3:          Pictures, photos, and miscellaneous notes

 

Folder 4:          Queries about antiques: responses by R.W.S.

                        [These answers were apparently prepared for the “Collectors’ Questions” column in Country Life.]

 

Folder 5:          Royal yachts, late 17th century: furnishing documents [transcriptions]

 

Folder 6:          S.W. Wolsey, Ltd.: correspondence

 

Folder 7:          Silver: typescripts of receipts, 17th century, and other notes

 

Folder 8:          Tompion, Thomas (clockmaker): research notes and correspondence

 

Folder 9:          Victorian furniture research

 

 

Box 24 (07x126): oversize items:

 

Arthur J. Jones, Son, and Co. (Dublin).  Description of a Suite of Sculptured Decorative Furniture, Illustrative of Irish History and Antiquities, Manufactured of Irish Bog Yew.  Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1853.  Includes a price list of “staple articles, as are always kept in stock.” (acc. 07x126.8)

Extract from the “Weekly Dispatch” of Sunday, January 17, 1841, “Tricks of the Trades,” about watches.  London: Parsonage, 1841.  Sheet addressed to Henry Gunton, watchmaker, Norwich, from [name illegible].  (acc. 07x126.11)

 

Extracts from The Times, & Morning Chronicle, Relative to the “British Clock and Watch Company.”  [London]: Hornblower, 1842.  Signed: from [name illegible].  (acc. 07x126.12)

 

The Illustrated Exhibitor.  July 12, 1851 (no. 6, p. 93-108).  Includes articles on the precious stones, the building itself, the railway ticket printing machine, a visit from Queen Victoria, cabinetwork on exhibit (including Elizabethan furniture), “The Ladies’ Department,” with a description a lace trophy, and Maltese contributions.  (acc. 07x126.9)

                        [Note: Thirty numbers were issued for this title, published by J. Cassell of London in 1851.  Number 6 is the only one present in this collection.]

 

Art Journal (London).  The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition, published with the Art Journal.  London: Virtue and Co., [1868].  An unbound copy of this work about the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867 (Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris).  Pages ix-x are missing.  (acc. 07x126.10)

 

Symonds, R. W., and Whineray, B. B.  Victorian Furniture.  Book jacket, some photocopied pages, and colored plates for a reprint of this book.

 

A group of printed photographs and drawings, mostly of clocks and furniture, perhaps illustrations from books or articles by Symonds.

 

A group of photographs of furniture, plus one letter from Morton Lee which accompanied one of the photos.

 

Certifications (carbon copies) attesting to genuineness of various pieces of furniture, including descriptions of the pieces, 1941-1943; in folder labeled Certificate, R. W, Symonds, architect.

 

 

Box 25 (acc. 10x28)

 

Folder 1:          Universal Magazine, 1748 (parts of March, June, Oct., Nov. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: practical chemistry; astronomy and geography; etching and engraving; art of limning; also a song (acc. 10x28.1)

 

Folder 2:          Universal Magazine, 1752 (parts of Jan.-March, June, July issues);

                        Subjects of plates: mills to grind corn, engine for raising water, solar microscope, Bradenstoke Priory, statues, view of Leicester, a ventilator; machine for exhausting a large quantity of water(acc. 10x28.2)

 

Folder 3:          Universal Magazine, 1754 (parts of March, June, issues);

                        Subjects of plates: use of diving engine in stopping leaks; Tower of Cordouan; Roman altars (acc. 10x28.3)

 

Folder 4:          Universal Magazine, 1755 (parts of Feb., May, June, Aug., Sept., Nov. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: experiments with fluids; mill for iron work; double microscope; engine for raising water; an orrery; Dunkirk (acc. 10x28.4)

 

Folder 5:          Universal Magazine, 1756 (parts of Feb., March, May, Sept. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: hemp; Fort William in Bengal; map (in color) of English and French coasts along the English Channel; Gibraltar; also the new sheep-shearing song for Winter’s Tale, words by Mr. Garrick, tune by Mr. Arne, Jr. (acc. 10x28.5)

 

Folder 6:          Universal Magazine, 1759 (parts of Feb., May, Aug., Oct. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: maps of Suffolk and Surrey; drainage machine; Quebec (city); Leystone Abbey; ploughs; Esher [a house] (acc. 10x28.6)

 

Folder 7:          Universal Magazine, 1761 (parts of Feb., June, Sept., Oct., Nov. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: map (in color) of Canada; mechanical power of wheels, wedges, etc.; Appleby Castle; Mount Vesuvius; experiments with fluids and liquors; coronation of king [George III,] and coronation banquet; also picture of transit of Venus and picture of a merman (acc. 10x28.7)

 

Folder 8:          Universal Magazine, 1762 (parts of Feb., March, May, June, Aug. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: view of Clardendon; battle between serpent and buffalo; aerometry and experiments with air; papermaking; properties of thermometers; also a picture of an eclipse (acc. 10x28.8)

 

Folder 9:          Universal Magazine, 1763 (parts of Jan.-May issues);

                        Subjects of plates: view of Northampton; eye glasses; papermaking; telescopes; map (in color) of North America; vision with help of mirrors, etc.; iron mines; also a song (acc. 10x28.9)

 

Folder 10:        Universal Magazine, 1764 (parts of Jan.-April, June, Sept.-Nov. issues);

                        Subjects of plates: allegorical print; fireworks; solar eclipse; astronomy; portrait of Handel; winter hut in Kamchatka; a prison; starch making; needle making; iron mines (acc. 10x28.10)

 

Folder 11:        Universal Magazine, 1765 (parts of Feb., April, June issues);

                        Subjects of plates: gilding; fireworks; charcoal making (acc. 10x28.11)

 

Folder 12:        Universal Magazine, 1766 (parts of Feb., March, May issues);

                        Subjects of plates: crane; slate quarry (acc. 10x28.13)

 

Folder 13:        Universal Magazine, 1767 (parts of Nov. issue);

                        Subjects of plate: lime kiln (acc. 10x28.14)

 

Folder 14:        Universal Magazine, parts of supplements to vol. 33, 38, 39, and loose plates;

                        Subjects of plates: planetary system; slate quarry; balance for wool manufactory; papermaking; English coins; portrait of John Thurlow; The Three Graces (acc. 10x28.12a-j)

 

Folder 15:        Gentleman’s Magazine, parts of vol. 28;

                        Subject of plates: “America in Flames”; a turtle; mirrors; sea chronometer; water pump; illuminations; pictures of Mrs. G---s and Sir Timothy Tallboy (acc. 10x28.15)

 

Folder 16:        scrapbook pages, with newspaper clippings, ca. 1855-1857, chiefly about Westminster bell and clocks (acc. 10x28.16a-i)

 

Folder 17:        Book of ads, Townsend’s Parisian(?) [illegible,] 1835;

                        Includes pictures of glassware; a portable bathtub; interior of floor cloth warehouse; recumbent chairs; and a foxhunt (acc. 10x28.17a-b)

 

Folder 18:        maps from unknown publications:

                        acc. 10x28.18a: “Cities of London and Westminster & [page missing,]” left half of map only, 18th century;

                        acc. 10x28.18b: physical planisphere, adapted to M. Buache’s Memoire;

                        acc. 10x28.18c: chart of Europe, by Thomas Jefferys, no date

 

Folder 19:        plates from The Lady’s Magazine, no date [English, 18th century];

                         includes views of cities and buildings, portrait of Queen Charlotte, what are probably illustrations for stories, and “view of the building erected in Westminster Hall for the trial of Elizabeth, Duchess Dowager of Kingston” (acc. 10x28.19a-r)

 

Folder 20:        embroidery designs from The Lady’s Magazine, no date [18th century];

                        Includes embroidery designs for lady’s shoes; quilting pattern for a petticoat; waist coat; gentlemen’s ruffles; aprons and gowns; work bags; and pincushion (acc. 10x28.20a-k)

 

Folder 21:        engravings to illustrate books, 18th-19th centuries (acc. 10x28.21-.34)

 

 

Box 26 (acc. 10x28)

 

Folder 1:          engravings from books or magazines (acc. 10x28.35-.71);

                        Includes portrait of Marie Antoinette, but chiefly illustrations of stories

 

Folder 2:          French language engravings, some from books or magazines (acc. 10x28.72-.97);

                        chiefly illustrations of stories

 

Folder 3:          German and Latin language engravings (acc. 10x28.98-.107);

                        chiefly illustrations of stories

 

Folder 4:          engravings from unknown sources (acc. 10x28.108-.142);

                        Includes Temple of the Winds; story illustrations; fire escapes; dance on island of Ulietea; Great Bath of the Alhambra; hermitage of St. Dimas; Mary Aubrey cutting up her husband, etc.

 

Folder 5:          book plate for George Folliott (acc. 10x28.143);

                        Photo of painting “Leda,” by Leonardo da Vinci (acc. 10x28.144)

 

 

 

OVERSIZED FOLDERS

 

Newspapers:

 

Chronique de Jersey [mostly in French, some in English] (acc. 11x42.11)

            1840: Dec. 10

 

The Daily Advertiser (London) (acc. 11x42.10)

            1795: Sept. 9

 

The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (London) (acc. 11x42.12)

            1784: June 3

 

The London Packet, or New Lloyd’s Evening Post: (acc. 11x42.1-.9)

            1773: Oct. 15; Nov. 8, 12, 17; Dec. 8;

            1774: Feb. 25; March 25; Aug. 19;

            1778: April 1

 

 

 

VOLUMES ON SHELF:

 

75x69.55         photo album, covers missing, with images of furniture, mirrors, paintings, tapestries, and clocks, most labeled with a negative number; it has been suggested that the items were in the collection of Percival Griffiths (based on an article associated with one of the photos) and that the photos were taken by Cooper and Humphreys; however, the album also includes a letter next to two photos of a cabinet, the letter being addressed to Symonds by the Victoria and Albert Museum, about purchasing a cabinet

 

75x69.56         photo album labeled “Furniture, Sandridgebury, No. 1”; photos of the house and furniture of Percival Griffiths near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, with notes about the furniture, a few of which are identified as being fakes, ca.1910-1929

 

75x69.57         photos and a drawing of 20th century furniture pieces: bedroom suite, desk, dining table, chairs, telephone table, cocktail cabinet, settee, etc.; furniture may have been designed by Symonds, ca.1935

 

75x69.58         photos of 20th century bathroom, bedroom, and exterior of a house, probably 1930s, possibly designed by Symonds

 

98x71.1           Volume I in a series of books published by the London decorating firm of Lenygon & Co., 31 Old Burlington Street.  This volume contains views of the firm’s place of business, showcasing items available from them, such as mantels; carved woodwork, plasterwork, and painted scenes for walls and ceilings; tapestries; paneling; furniture; etc.  Published ca.1908  

 

98x71.2           Volume V from the same series of books, this one featuring armchairs, many of which are in 18th century styles.  The photos are not labeled, although a few have numbers.  From correspondence associated with the volumes, it seems that at least some of the chairs, if not all, are reproductions being sold by Lenygon, not originals.

 

98x71.3           Volume XI from the same series of books, this one featuring tables, and a few desks, with marble or wood tops, most in styles dating from the Renaissance through the 18th century.  One table is labeled as being a dressing table from Ham House; the others are not labeled or identified.  Two pages have had their photographs removed.

 

07x126.1         “Articles and Press Cuttings,” scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings about English furniture, especially including advertisements for and reviews of two of Symonds’ books, The Present State of Old English Furniture and Old English Walnut & Lacquer Furniture, 1921-1923

                        (a later note attached to this volume refer to it as volume 43)

 

07x126.2         “Articles and Press Cuttings,” scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings about English furniture and interior decoration; also includes some correspondence, 1923-1927

                        (later notes attached to this volume refer to it as volume 56)

 

07x126.3         “Articles and Press Cuttings, 1928” scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings about English furniture and interior decoration; includes articles and photos of the Bearsted memorial almemar in London’s Central Synagogue, which was designed by Symonds, as well as articles on homes decorated by him; also includes order forms for Symonds’ book English Furniture from Charles II to George II and letters written to him after the publication of the book; as well, there is an article about the decoration of the Symonds’ house at 22 Cheyne Row;1927-1932

                        (later notes attached to this volume refer to it as volume 55)

 

07x126.4         “Press Cuttings and Notices, 1932, 1” scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings about English furniture and interior decoration; also includes some correspondence, 1930-1937

                        (later notes attached to this volume refer to it as volume 42)

 

07x126.5         “Press Cuttings and Notices, 1938, 2” scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings about English furniture, clocks, and interior decoration; also includes some correspondence, ads for Symonds’ book Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, and articles addressing war conditions and issues in post-war city planning; 1938-1948, with one article from 1929 pasted inside the front cover

           

07x126.6         scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings about clocks, furniture, and obituaries of Symonds; also includes some correspondence and a trade catalog for Burwell bricks (R.W.S. was consulting architect for this company); 1948-1958, with additions through 1995

 

07x126.7         scrapbook of magazine clippings about English furniture, many from Country Life, 1912-1938

                        (later notes attached to this volume refer to it as volume 57)

Series II: Photograph Collection [housed in DAPC]

 

 

Box 1: Chairs: Armchairs 

 

Gothic

 

Elizabethan-Jacobean: general

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Cross-Framed

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Triangular-Turned

 

Early Stuart: general

 

Late Stuart: general

Late Stuart: Caned

Late Stuart: Caned: Carved front legs

Late Stuart: Caned: Scroll front legs

 

 

Box 2: Chairs: Armchairs: Late Stuart

 

Late Stuart: Caned: Turned front legs

Late Stuart: Caned: Twist-turned front legs

Late Stuart: Easy

Late Stuart: “French”

Late Stuart: Turned

Late Stuart: Upholstered Back: Carved front legs

Late Stuart: Upholstered Back: Scroll front legs

 

 

Box 3: Chairs: Armchairs

 

Stuart Vernacular

Stuart Vernacular: Joined

Stuart Vernacular: Turned

Stuart Vernacular: Upholstered Back

 

Queen Anne

Queen Anne: Cross-Framed

Queen Anne: Desk

Queen Anne: Easy

Queen Anne: Upholstered: shepherd's-crook arms

 

 

Box 4: Chairs: Armchairs: early Georgian

 

Early Georgian: Bended-Back

Early Georgian: Caned

Early Georgian: Cross-Framed

Early Georgian: Desk, including roundabout

Early Georgian: Easy

Early Georgian: Hall

Early Georgian: Master's

Early Georgian: Open back: carved/pierced splat

Early Georgian: Open back: carved/shell-back

Early Georgian: Upholstered

Early Georgian: Upholstered: shepherd's-crook arms

 

 

Box 5: Chairs: Armchairs: mid-Georgian

 

Mid-Georgian: Easy

Mid-Georgian: "French"

Mid-Georgian: Hall

Mid-Georgian: Open Back: carved back: cabriole legs

Mid-Georgian: Open Back: carved back: straight legs

Mid-Georgian: Open Back: fret back

Mid-Georgian: Open Back: ladder back

Mid-Georgian: Open Back: ribband back

Mid-Georgian: Open Back: slat back

 

 

Box 6: Chairs: Armchairs  

 

Mid-Georgian: Upholstered: cabriole legs

Mid-Georgian: Upholstered: straight legs

 

Georgian Vernacular

Georgian Vernacular : Windsor

 

Rococo

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Open Carved Back

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Upholstered

 

Neoclassical 

 

 

Box 7: Chairs: Armchairs

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open Carved Back: oval back

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open Carved Back: shield back

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open Carved Back: shield: serpentine top rail

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open Carved Back: shield: shaped top rail

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Upholstered

 

Sheraton: Open Carved Back

 

Regency: Open Back

Regency: Upholstered Back

 

Vernacular

 

 

Box 8: Chairs

 

Primitive

Elizabethan-Jacobean  - see armchairs

Early Stuart

 

Late Stuart

Late Stuart: Caned: bended-back

Late Stuart: Caned: ladder back

Late Stuart: Caned: carved front legs

Late Stuart: Caned: scroll front legs

Late Stuart: Caned: turned front legs

Late Stuart: Caned: (twist-turned front legs)

Late Stuart: Upholstered Back: Backstools

 

 

Box 9: Chairs

 

Stuart Vernacular: Joined

Stuart Vernacular: Turned

Stuart Vernacular: Upholstered Back (Backstools)

 

Queen Anne

Queen Anne: Bended-Back

Queen Anne: Caned

Queen Anne: Caned: bended-back

Queen Anne: Cross-framed

Queen Anne: Upholstered Backs

 

 

Box 10: Chairs: early Georgian

 

Early Georgian: Bended-Back

Early Georgian: Shaped apron

Early Georgian: Caned

Early Georgian: Desk (includes Roundabout chairs)

Early Georgian: Hall

Early Georgian: Open Back

Early Georgian: Shaving 

 

 

Box 11: Chairs  

 

Early Georgian: Upholstered Back

Early Georgian: Writing Chairs and Desk chairs

 

Mid-Georgian: Bended-Back

Mid-Georgian: Desk

Mid-Georgian: Hall

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: cabriole legs

 

 

Box 12: Chairs: mid-Georgian  

 

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: straight legs

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: fret back

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: ladder back

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: ribband back

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: slat back

Mid-Georgian: Upholstered

[shaving chairs – under Early Georgian]

 

 

Box 13: Chairs  

 

Georgian Vernacular

Georgian Vernacular: Windsor [see also armchairs]

 

Rococo

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open Carved Back

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open carved back: oval

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open carved back: shield: serpentine top rail

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Open carved back: shield: shaped top rail

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Upholstered

 

Regency

Vernacular [nothing under this heading]

 

 

Box 14: Stools   

 

Gothic

Elizabethan-Jacobean

Early Stuart

 

Late Stuart

Late Stuart-William and Mary

Late Stuart-William and Mary: Caned

Late Stuart-William and Mary: Footstools

 

Stuart vernacular 

 

 

Box 15: Stools and close stools

 

Stools:

  

Queen Anne (general)

Early Georgian (general)

Mid-Georgian (general)

Georgian vernacular

Early Neoclassical

Regency

Vernacular  

 

Close stools:

Stuart

 

 

Box 16: Benches, forms, settles, settees (continues in next box)

 

Benches, forms:

 

Gothic

Late Stuart

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

 

 

Settles:

 

Stuart vernacular 

 

 

Settees:

 

Early Stuart

 

Late Stuart

Late Stuart : Chair-Back

 

Queen Anne

Queen Anne: Chair-Back

 

Early Georgian (general)

Early Georgian: Chair-Back

 

Mid-Georgian (general)

Mid-Georgian: Chair-Back

Mid-Georgian: Open Carved Back

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: fret back

Mid-Georgian: Open carved back: ribband back

Mid-Georgian: Upholstered

 

 

Box 17: Settees (continued), couches, sofas, daybeds, window seats

 

Settees:

Georgian Vernacular (Windsor)

Shearer/Hepplewhite

Regency

 

 

Couches:  

Early Stuart

Regency   

 

Sofas:  

Late Stuart  

Queen Anne  

Early Georgian

Mid-Georgian  

Early Neoclassical (Adam)  

Shearer/Hepplewhite  

Regency 

 

 

Daybeds:

Early Stuart

Late Stuart

Queen Anne

Early Georgian

Mid-Georgian

Regency

 

Window seats:

Mid-Georgian (general)

Early Neoclassical  (Adam)

Shearer/Hepplewhite

Sheraton

Regency

 

 

Box 18: bench-tables, chair-tables, seat furniture (unidentified details), beds:

 

Bench-tables:

Stuart vernacular

 

Chair-tables:

Early Stuart

Stuart vernacular

 

Seat furniture (unidentified details)

 

Beds:

Gothic

Elizabethan-Jacobean

Late Stuart

Stuart vernacular

Queen Anne

Georgian

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

 

 

Box 19: Tables

 

Gothic

 

Elizabethan-Jacobean: general

Elizabethan-Jacobean: with Cupboard and/or Potboard

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Draw-top

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Long Tables

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Long tables: Draw-top

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Side: Gate-leg

 

Early Stuart: general

Early Stuart: with Cupboard and/or Potboard

Early Stuart: Draw-top

Early Stuart: Drop-leaf

Early Stuart: Long Tables

Early Stuart: Side

 

 

Box 20: Tables: late Stuart

 

Late Stuart: general

Late Stuart: Caned

Late Stuart: Drop-leaf

Late Stuart: Gate-leg

Late Stuart: Gate-leg (round tables)

Late Stuart: Card

Late Stuart: Dressing Table on Turned Legs

Late Stuart: Games

Late Stuart: Side

Late Stuart: Side: Japanned (tray-top)

Late Stuart: Side: Marble

Late Stuart: Side: Marquetry

Late Stuart: Writing

 

 

Box 21: Tables: Stuart vernacular

 

Stuart vernacular: General

Stuart vernacular: with Cupboard

Stuart vernacular: with Potboard

Stuart vernacular: with Cupboard and Potboard

Stuart vernacular: draw-top

Stuart vernacular: Drop-leaf

Stuart vernacular: Folding-top

Stuart vernacular: Gate-leg

Stuart vernacular: Gate-leg with trestle-end

Stuart vernacular: Card

Stuart vernacular: Dressing Table on Turned Legs

Stuart vernacular: Long Tables

Stuart vernacular: Side

 

 

Box 22: Tables: Queen Anne 

 

Queen Anne: Card  

Queen Anne: Gate-leg, semi-circular

Queen Anne: Dining

Queen Anne: Dining: Gate-leg

Queen Anne: Dressing

Queen Anne: Games

Queen Anne: Pier

Queen Anne: Side

Queen Anne: Side: Gilded

Queen Anne: Side: Silvered

Queen Anne: Various Small Tables

Queen Anne:  small tables: gilded

 

 

Box 23: Tables: Early Georgian

 

Early Georgian: Card

Early Georgian: China

Early Georgian: Console

Early Georgian: Console: dolphin and eagle

Early Georgian: Dining

Early Georgian: Dressing

Early Georgian: Pier

Early Georgian:  Pier: Gilded

Early Georgian: Pier: with Marble top

Early Georgian: Pier: with Marble top (gilded)

 

 

Box 24: Tables: Early and Mid-Georgian

 

Early Georgian: Side: Gilded

Early Georgian: Side: with Marble top

Early Georgian: Side: with Marble top (gilded)

Early Georgian: Tripod Tables

Early Georgian:  Tripod tables: Tilt-top

Early Georgian: various small tables

 

Mid-Georgian: Card

 

 

Box 25: Tables: Mid-Georgian

 

Mid-Georgian: China: cabriole legs

Mid-Georgian: China: straight legs

Mid-Georgian: Console

Mid-Georgian: Dining

Mid-Georgian: Dressing

Mid-Georgian: Library

Mid-Georgian: Pembroke Tables

Mid-Georgian: Pier: with Marble top

Mid-Georgian: Side

Mid-Georgian: Side: with Marble top

 

 

Box 26: Tables:

 

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables: Tilt-top

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables: Tilt-top: on claw feet

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables: Tilt-top, with carved edge

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables: Tilt-top, with carved edge: on claw feet

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables: Tilt-top, with gallery

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Tables: Tilt-top, with gallery: on claw feet

Mid-Georgian: Writing

Mid-Georgian: Writing: with Superstructure

Mid-Georgian: various small tables

 

Georgian Vernacular

 

Rococo: Side

Rococo: side: with Marble top

 

 

Box 27: Tables: 

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Card

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Library

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Side

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Dining-room (serving tables)

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Writing

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Card

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Dressing

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Pembroke Tables

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Side

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Writing

Shearer/Hepplewhite : writing, with Superstructure

 

Sheraton: Card

Sheraton: Dining

Sheraton: Dressing

Sheraton: Library

 

 

Box 28: Tables: 

 

Sheraton: Pedestal Dining Tables

Sheraton: Pembroke Tables

Sheraton: Side

Sheraton: Writing

Sheraton: various small tables

 

Regency: Card

Regency: Center

Regency: Center, writing

Regency: Drinking

Regency: Games

Regency: Library

Regency: Pedestal Dining Tables

Regency: Side

 

 

Box 29: Tables: 

 

Regency: Sofa

Regency: Writing and Combination

Regency: Writing and Combination: Carlton House tables

Regency: Writing and Combination: with Superstructure

Regency: Various Small Tables

Regency: Miscellaneous

 

Vernacular: General

Vernacular: with Potboard

Vernacular: Trestle

 

Tables (unidentified details, such as table tops)

 

 

Box 30: Stands:

 

Late Stuart

Early Georgian

Early Georgian: Candle

Early Georgian: Tripod stand or small table (silvered)

 

Mid-Georgian

Mid-Georgian: Candle

 

 

Box 31: Stands:

 

Mid-Georgian: Tripod Stand or Small Table

Mid-Georgian: Tripod stand or small table (on claw feet)

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam): Candle

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Tripod Stand or Small Table

Shearer/Hepplewhite: tripod stand or small table: tilt-top

 

Sheraton

Regency

Late Neoclassical-Early Victorian

Vernacular

 

 

Box 32: pedestals, dumb waiters, trays, screens

 

Pedestals:

Early Georgian

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Shearer/Hepplewhite - Sheraton

 

Dumb waiters:

Early Georgian

Mid-Georgian

Regency

 

Trays

 

Screens:

Folding

Hand/Fans

Pole

Standing

 

 

Box 33: Brackets/shelves

 

Brackets

Open Cases of Shelves

Hanging Shelves

Hanging Shelves: 17th Century

Hanging Shelves: 18th Century

 

 

Box 34: Bookcases

 

Late Stuart

Queen Anne/Early Georgian

Mid-Georgian

Mid-Georgian: with Pediment

           

 

Box 35: Bookcases

 

Mid-Georgian: without Pediment

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Shearer/Hepplewhite - Sheraton

 

Regency

Regency: Chiffoniers and Moveable Bookcases

Regency: Commodes and Low Bookcases

 

 

Box 36: Desks and bookcases

 

Late Stuart: Double Door: Double dome

Late Stuart: Double Door: Flat cornice

Late Stuart: Double Door: on Tall legs

 

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Double Door: Double dome

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Double Door: Flat cornice

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Double Door: Pediment /shaped cornice

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Double Door: Japanned

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Double Door: vertical drop fronts

 

 

Box 37: Desks and bookcases

 

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Single Door: Flat cornice and domed cornice

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Single Door: Pediment /shaped cornice

Queen Anne /Early Georgian: Single Door: Japanned

 

Mid-Georgian: Double Door

Mid-Georgian: Double Door: Vertical drop fronts

 

 

Box 38: Desks and bookcases

 

Mid-Georgian: Single Door

Mid-Georgian: Breakfront

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite

Shearer/Hepplewhite: Breakfront

 

Sheraton

Regency

 

 

Box 39: Desks

 

Late Stuart: Bureau

Late Stuart: on Tall legs

Late Stuart: Fall-Front

Late Stuart: Kneehole

 

Stuart vernacular

 

Queen Anne/Early Georgian: Bureau

Queen Anne/Early Georgian:  on Tall legs

 

 

Box 40: Desks

 

Queen Anne/Early Georgian: Bureau: on Tall legs, with dressing mirror

Queen Anne/Early Georgian: Kneehole

Queen Anne/Early Georgian: Pedestal

Queen Anne/Early Georgian: Various Other

 

Mid-Georgian: Bureau

Mid-Georgian: on Tall legs

Mid-Georgian: Fall –Front

 

 

Box 41: Desks

 

Mid-Georgian: Kneehole

Mid-Georgian: Pedestal

Mid-Georgian: Various Other

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Shearer/Hepplewhite

Sheraton

 

Regency

Regency: Pedestal

 

 

Box 42: Cupboards

 

Primitive

 

Gothic: General

Gothic: Enclosed

Gothic: Ventilated

 

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Court

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Enclosed

 

Early Stuart

Early Stuart: Court

Early Stuart: Enclosed

Early Stuart: Press Cupboards

 

 

Box 43: Cupboards: Stuart vernacular:

 

Stuart vernacular: General

Stuart vernacular: Enclosed

Stuart vernacular: Ventilated

Stuart vernacular: Court

Stuart vernacular: Court: Enclosed

Stuart vernacular: Hanging

Stuart vernacular: Press Cupboards

 

 

Box 44: Cabinets

 

Early Stuart

 

Late Stuart

Late Stuart: Clothes Press

Late Stuart: on Chests of Drawers

Late Stuart: on Chests of Drawers: Fall-front

Late Stuart: on Cupboards

Late Stuart: on Stands

Late Stuart: Japanned/lacquered: giltwood stands, tapered legs

Late Stuart: Japanned/lacquered: giltwood stands, other carved legs

Late Stuart: Japanned/lacquered: other carved stands

Late Stuart: Marquetry

 

 

Box 45: Cabinets

 

Late Stuart: Veneered

Late Stuart: Veneered: fall-front

 

Early Georgian

Early Georgian: Clothes Press

Early Georgian: Hanging

Early Georgian: on Chests of Drawers

Early Georgian: on Cupboards

Early Georgian: on Stands

Early Georgian: on Stands: glazed doors

Early Georgian: on Stands: Japanned/lacquered

Early Georgian: on Stands: veneered

 

 

Box 46: Cabinets

 

Mid-Georgian: Clothes Press

Mid-Georgian: Desk Cabinet

Mid-Georgian: Night Tables

Mid-Georgian: on Chests of Drawers

Mid-Georgian: on Stands

Mid-Georgian: on stands: glazed doors

Mid-Georgian: Other

 

Georgian vernacular

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Early Neoclassical (Adam): on Chests of Drawers

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite – Sheraton

Shearer/Hepplewhite – Sheraton: Clothes Press

Shearer/Hepplewhite – Sheraton: Night Tables

 

Regency 

 

 

Box 47: CHESTS OF DRAWERS

 

Early Stuart

 

Late Stuart: Marquetry

Late Stuart: Molding on carcass

Late Stuart: Veneers and parquetry

 

Stuart vernacular

Stuart vernacular: with Doors

 

Early Georgian

Early Georgian: Folding Tops

Early Georgian: folding tops: cockbeading on drawers

 

 

Box 48: Chests of drawers: Mid-Georgian:

 

Mid-Georgian

Mid-Georgian: Canted Corners

Mid-Georgian: Canted Corners: with applied carving (volutes)

Mid-Georgian: Canted Corners: with other applied carving 

 

 

Box 49: Chests of drawers:

 

Mid-Georgian: Carved and Shaped Corners: with Corner mounts

Mid-Georgian: Colonettes at corners

Mid-Georgian: Folding tops

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite - Sheraton

 

 

Box 50: Chests on chests; tallboys

 

Chests on chests:

Late Stuart

 

Early Georgian

Early Georgian: with writing drawer

 

Mid-Georgian

Shearer/Hepplewhite – Sheraton

 

 

Tallboys (chests of drawers on stands):

 

Late Stuart

Early Georgian

 

 

Box 51: Commodes

 

Mid-Georgian

Rococo

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Shearer/Hepplewhite – Sheraton

 

 

Box 52: Dressers, sideboards:

 

Dressers:

 

Stuart vernacular

Georgian vernacular

Regency

 

 

Sideboards:

 

Shearer/Hepplewhite

Sheraton

Regency

 

 

Box 53: Chests:

 

Primitive

 

Gothic

Gothic: Joined: Linenfold

Gothic: Joined: with Carving

Gothic: Joined: with Inlay

 

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Joined: with Carving

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Joined: with Inlay

Elizabethan-Jacobean: Other 

 

 

Box 54: Chests; Trunks/coffers; Arks

 

Chests:

 

Early Stuart: Joined: with Carving

Early Stuart: Joined: with Inlay

 

Late Stuart

 

Stuart vernacular: Joined

Stuart vernacular: Joined: with Carving

Stuart vernacular: Joined: with Inlay

Stuart vernacular: Joined: with Molding /turning

 

Early /Mid-Georgian

 

Trunks/coffers

Arks

 

 

Box 55: wine coolers/cellarettes; case pieces (unidentified details)

 

Wine coolers/cellarettes:

Early Georgian

Mid-Georgian

Georgian vernacular

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Shearer-Hepplewhite

Regency

 

Small case pieces

 

Case pieces (unidentified details):

Case pieces (unidentified details): desk components

Case pieces (unidentified details): drawers

Case pieces (unidentified details): drop leaves

Case pieces (unidentified details): latches, locks

Case pieces (unidentified details): bottoms

Case pieces (unidentified details): tops

Case pieces (unidentified details): other

 

 

Box 56: Mirrors:

 

Late Stuart: Square frames

Late Stuart: Square frames, with carving

Late Stuart: Square frames, with cresting

Late Stuart: Other frames

 

Queen Anne

Queen Anne: Dressing

Queen Anne: Overmantel

Queen Anne: Pier (continues in next box)

 

 

Box 57: Mirrors

 

Queen Anne: Pier (continued from previous box)

Queen Anne: glass frames 

 

Early Georgian

Early Georgian: Part-gilt

Early Georgian: Gilded

Early Georgian: Architectural frames

Early Georgian: Overmantel

Early Georgian: Pier

Early Georgian: Pier: part-gilt 

 

 

Box 58: Mirrors

 

Early Georgian: Part-gilt, with architectural frames

Early Georgian: Gilded

Early Georgian: Gilded, with architectural frames

 

Mid-Georgian 

 

 

Box 59: Mirrors

 

Rococo

Rococo: Oval

Rococo: Overmantel

Rococo: Pier

 

Early Neoclassical (Adam)

Shearer/Hepplewhite - Sheraton

 

Regency

Regency: Dressing

 

Vernacular

 

Mirrors and frames: unidentified details

 

 

Box 60:

 

Miniature furniture

Victorian furniture

20th century furniture

Stamps on unidentified furniture

Trade cards on unidentified furniture (alphabetical by surname of tradesman)

Trade cards of clock and watchmakers (alphabetical by surname of maker); also includes list of clock and watchmaker in and near London, 1782

Documents (mostly copies of bills and accounts; also a “list of members who pay quarterage, with their places of abode & employment,” England, 18th century)

 

 

Box 61:

 

American furniture

Dutch furniture

 

French furniture

French furniture: 17th century and earlier

French furniture: 18th century: ebenisterie

French furniture: 18th century: menuiserie

 

Italian and other European furniture

 

 

Box 62:

 

Irish furniture: Early to Mid-Georgian

Irish furniture: Neoclassical

 

Chinese furniture

Other Oriental furniture

Various (other than English) furniture

 

 

Box 63: Lighting

 

Chandeliers

Chandeliers: Giltwood

Chandeliers: Glass

Chandeliers: Metal

 

Girandoles

Lanterns

 

Sconces: Glass Panel

Sconces: Needlework Panel

Sconces: Other Panel

Sconces: Unpanelled

 

Various (mostly candlestick holders)

 

 

Box 64: Architecture

 

Exteriors

 

Interiors: Furnished Rooms

Interiors: Furnished Rooms - "Sandridgebury"  (home of Percival Griffiths)

Interiors: Unfurnished Rooms

 

Doors

Staircases 

 

 

Box 65: Chimneypieces; sculpture

 

Chimneypieces: 16th-17th centuries

Chimneypieces: 18th century

 

Sculpture

Sculpture: carved details

 

 

Box 66: Silver

 

Percival Griffiths Collection:

Candlesticks

Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Pots

Salvers 

Miscellaneous

 

Other Silver:

Boxes

Candlesticks

Casters

Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Pots

Cups and Covers

Ewers/Tankards

Salvers/Trays

 

 

Box 67: Silver; other metalwork; wooden wares

 

Other silver:

            Service sets

            Tureens and porringers

            Miscellaneous

            Unidentified details

 

Wrought iron

Other metals

 

Wooden vessels

Other wooden objects

 

 

Box 68: ceramics, various materials, textiles

 

Ceramics

Various materials

 

Textiles: Carpets

Textiles: Needlework

Textiles: Tapestries

 

 

Box 69: Paintings

 

General

Clock and clockmakers

Dogs

Horses

Portraits (individuals and groups; see also under general)

Religious

Scenery

Ships

Still lifes

 

 

Box 70: Prints; silhouettes

 

Prints:

General

Clock and clockmakers

Furniture

Maps

Printing

Scenery

Ships

 

Silhouettes:

Men

Women

Men and women

Labels on reverse

 

 

Box 71: illuminated manuscripts (details)

 

General

Bedrooms

Dining rooms

Fantasy, including costumes

Multiple views

Printing

Religious

Royal

 

 

Box 72: illuminated manuscripts; illustrations from design books

 

Illuminated manuscripts: Single figures

 

illustrations from design books:

Accessories and hardware

Architecture

Case pieces

Chairs

Clocks

Interiors

Mirrors

Tables

Miscellaneous

 

 

Box 73: tools, instruments

 

Tools

Musical instruments

 

Scientific instruments

Scientific instruments: barometers: standing

Scientific instruments: barometers: wall

 

 

Box 74: instruments; clocks

 

Scientific instruments: Astronomical/horological

 

Equation tables

 

Clocks: weigh-driven: water

Clocks: weigh-driven: turret

Clocks: weigh-driven: wall

Clocks: weigh-driven: lantern: Tompion

Clocks: weigh-driven: lantern: other

Clocks: weigh-driven: lantern: unidentified

Clocks: weigh-driven: lantern: European

 

 

Box 74a: clocks: weight driven: long case

 

Clocks: weight driven: long case:

            Clement

            Cockey

            Delander

            East

            Ellicott

            Fromanteel

            Gould

            Graham

            Gretton

            Knibb (John and Joseph)

            Mudge/Dutton

 

 

Box 74b: clocks: weight driven: long case

 

Clocks: weight driven: long case:

            Quare

            Tompion

            Tompion: illustrations in biography by R.W.S.

 

 

Box 74c: clocks: weight driven: long case

 

Clocks: weight driven: long case:

            Tompion and Banger

            Vulliamy

            Windmills

            Other: alphabetical by surname, A-L (continues in next box)

 

 

Box 74d: clocks: weight driven: long case

 

Clocks: weight driven: long case:

            Other: alphabetical by surname, M-Z (continued from previous box)

            Multiple views of clocks

            Multiple views of clocks: Tompion et al. (i.e. at least one of the clocks is by Tompion)

 

 

Box 74e: clocks: weight driven: long case: unidentified

 

Clocks: weight driven: long case: unidentified:

            Flat cornice

            Flat cornice with marquetry or veneer

            Shaped pediment

            Shaped pediment with cresting or finials

            Clock works

            Multiple views of clocks

 

 

Box 74f: clocks: spring driven: table/standing; wall

 

Clocks: spring driven: Table/standing:

            Markham

            Vulliamy

            Other

            Unidentified

            European

 

Clocks: spring driven: wall

                       

 

Box 74g: clocks: spring driven: bracket

 

Clocks: spring driven: Bracket:

            Delander

East

            Ellicott

            Fromanteel

            Gould

            Graham

            Jones

            Knibb (John, Joseph, S.)

            Quare

            Stanton

 

 

Box 74h: clocks: spring driven: bracket

 

Clocks: spring driven: Bracket:

            Tompion

            Tompion: illustrations in biography by R.W.S.

 

 

Box 74i: clocks: spring driven: bracket

 

Clocks: spring driven: Bracket:

            Tompion and Banger

            Vulliamy

            Windmills

            Other: alphabetical by surname, A-R (continues in next box)

 

 

Box 74j: clocks: spring driven: bracket

 

Clocks: spring driven: Bracket:

            Other: alphabetical by surname, S-Z (continued from previous box)

            Multiple views of clocks

            Unidentified clockmakers

            unidentified: multiple views

 

 

Box 74k: watches

 

Watches:

            East

            Tompion

            Other

            Unidentified

 

Electric clocks

Miscellaneous: accessories/details (brackets, keys, etc.)

Miscellaneous: mixed forms (more than one kind of clock depicted)

 

 

Box 75: duplicates

 

59.1-59.799

 

Box 76: duplicates

 

59.800-59.1799

 

Box 77: duplicates

 

59.1800-59.2999

 

Box 78: duplicates

 

59.3000-59.4599

 

Box 79: duplicates

 

59.4600-59.5799

 

Box 80: duplicates

 

59.5800 to end

Stamps

Trade cards

Documents

Oversize

 

 

Box 81: new accessions, 1973-1975

 

It is now unclear whether these ever belonged to Symonds as his estate was not the direct source of acquisition.  Most of the photos are of design sources, not of actual pieces of furniture.

 

 

Box 82: copper printing plates

 

Four copper printing plates and a copy of the color print generated by them.  The print depicts a winged armchair of circa 1740.

 

 

Boxes 83a-c: 20th century homes and furniture

 

Many of these pictures are from an album, depicting homes built or decorated in the 20th century, presumably by Symonds.  Also includes views of the interior of a synagogue in London.

 

 

Boxes 84-86: articles by Symonds

 

These articles are arranged alphabetically by title.  Found with most of them is a card indicating which photos in the collection were used to illustrate the articles.