The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Pettingell-Andrews Company                                                   

Title:               Drawings of Lighting Equipment

Dates:             ca.1910

Call No.:         Col. 166          

Acc. No.:         87x154

Quantity:        2 boxes

Location:        42 F 6-7

 

 

 

HISTORICAL STATEMENT

 

The Pettingell‑Andrews Company was a leading manufacturer of lighting fixtures in Boston, Massachusetts, for homes, churches, and public buildings.  Its products represented a range of decorative periods, but merchandise was placed into four categories: Colonial, English, French, and commercial.  Some products were carried in stock, while others were made to order.  The company had special departments devoted to each of the processes required in manufacturing lighting, including: modeling, chasing, spinning, plating, etching, and galvanizing.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

The collection consists of 24 drawings and hand‑colored tracings of lighting fixtures executed to a one‑quarter scale, measuring three inches to the foot. Each drawing has an embossing from Pettingell‑Andrews Company fixture studio in Boston.  Drawings are numbered for purposes of identification in the catalog; however, only one of these illustrations corresponds to plates in the 1910 trade catalog.  Such types of fixtures as electric ceiling lights, electric chandeliers, electric brackets, and electric pendants are represented.

 

This collection of drawings nicely complements the holdings in the Downs Collection of the Georgian Lighting Shops (Collection 103).

 

  

ORGANIZATION

 

Arranged in accession number order.

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Purchased from Portals of the Past.

           

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Lighting, Architectural and decorative - Massachusetts - Boston.

            Chandeliers.

            Interior lighting - Drawings.

            Electric lighting - Massachusetts - Boston.

            Glass lampshades - Drawings.

            Lamps.

            Scrolls (Decorative arts) - Massachusetts - Boston.

            Drawings.

            Tracings.

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 42 F 6-7

                                               

Note: all accession numbers begin with 87x154.

 

Box 1:

 

.1         No. 13789.  An electric ceiling light with three exposed bulbs.

 

.2         No. 18486.  A ceiling mounted electric pendant with an enclosed single bulb and glass shade.

 

.3         No. J.C. 59998.  A ceiling mounted lantern shaped fixture with a floral design in the glass shade.

 

.4         No. J.C. 59963.  A wall mounted lantern shaped fixture in green.

 

.5         No. 158819.  An electric bracket with two candle-like bulbs.

 

.6         No. 16010.  A wall mounted fixture.  Wall mount is in an oval shape with an arm extending out to a single bulb covered by an open shade.

 

.7         No. J.C. 59990.  A four bulb chandelier.

 

.8         No. J.C. 59992.  A two bulb wall mounted fixture in the style of candlesticks.  Mount in an oval shape.

 

.9         No. J.C. 59962.  A two bulb wall mounted fixture in the style of candlesticks.  Mount in a square shape.

 

.10       No. J.C. 59961.  A six bulb chandelier in the style of candlesticks.

 

.11       No. J.C. 59997.  A ceiling mounted fixture with a large single bulb and decorative glass shade.

 

.12       No. J.C. 59999.  A ceiling mounted fixture in the shape of a scale.

 

 

Box 2:

 

.13       No. J.C. 59991.  A ceiling mounted fixture with one bulb and a semi-circular decorative shade.

 

.14       No. 13149.  A electric ceiling fixture with a colored glass shade in a semi-circular shape.

 

.15       No. 15785.  An electric bracket with a single circular shade.

 

.16       No. J.C. 58994.  A ceiling mounted fixture with a single bulb and shade.

 

.17       No. J.C. 59995.  A ceiling mounted fixture with a single shade in the shape of a drinking vessel.

 

.18       No. 13729.  Similar to .17, with an elongated stem between the ceiling mount and shade.

 

.19       No. 15212.  Electric bracket with a single bulb and shade.

 

.20       No. 52123.  A wall mounted fixture that resembles a faucet.

 

.21       No. J.C. 59993.  A wall mounted fixture with a single bulb and shade.

 

.22       No. J.C. 59969.  A ceiling mounted fixture with a single shade and decorative piece hanging on both sides of the shade.

 

.23       No. 13517.  An electric ceiling fixture with a single bulb and shade in a circular shape.

 

.24       No. 13015.  An electric ceiling fixture with a single bulb and shade in a semi-circular shape.