The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Betty Elzea

Title: Research Notes

Dates: 1957-1971

Call No.: Col. 364

Acc. No.: 91x41, 94x83

Quantity: 3 cu. ft.

Location: 13 F 1-3

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Betty Elzea was a research assistant at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, when these notes were compiled. She worked with Hugh Wakefield, Keeper of the Circulation Department, while researching a never published book on Victorian glass.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection consists of research materials (offprints, handwritten notes, clippings, photocopies, and photographs) pertaining to glassware, ceramics, and other decorative arts objects, compiled by Elzea when she was working at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The material documents objects produced in several European countries as well as the United States from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The bulk refers to glass manufactured in England. Of particular note are photocopies of advertisements from prominent glass works and copies of trade catalogs.

The collection also contains two scrapbooks of photographs and photocopied material from a wide variety of sources. All items depict or describe glass and glassware, dating from 1800 to 1930, that was made in Britain, France, Germany, or Czechoslovakia. Among the publications from which articles and illustrations came are: Connoisseur, Country Life, Illustrated London News, and Ackermann's Repository. Apsley Pellatt's firm is featured on many pages. Several clippings relate to fairs, from the 1846 Exposition of British Industrial Art to the 1878 show in Paris. Parts of various trade catalogs are also included. Modern photographs of Victorian glass in the Victoria & Albert's collection are also present.

ORGANIZATION

The papers are divided into those dealing with glassware and those dealing with ceramics and pottery. The scrapbooks are housed at the end of the collection.

PROVENANCE

Accession 91x41 was purchased from Betty Elzea.

Accession 94x83 was a gift from Betty Elzea.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Wakefield, Hugh.

Topics:

Victoria and Albert Museum

Glassware \x History.

Glassware, Victorian.

Glassware \x Photographs.

Glass trade.

Ceramics \x Photographs.

Pottery.

Decorative arts.

Notes.

Photographic prints.

Photocopies.

Trade catalogs.

Advertisements.

Scrapbooks.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 13 F 1-3

Box 1: Glassware

Glassworks--Manchester (General)

Glassworks--Manchester, Frederick Hampson

Glassworks--Warrington, Edward Bolton

Glassworks--Manchester, Burtles, Tate & Co.

Glassworks--Manchester, Molineaux, Webb, & Co.

Glassworks--Manchester, Thomas Kidd & Co.

Glassworks--Manchester, Percival, Yates & Vickers

Glassworks--Manchester, Flint Glassworks

Glassworks--Manchester, Derbyshire

Gateshead (Glassware)

Sunderland

South Shields (New Castle)

Yorkshire

Denmark

Ireland

Glasgow

Edinburgh

West Hartlepool

Bohemia/Austria [3 folders]

Box 2: Glassware

Finland (Glassware)

France [3 folders]

France--Emile Galle

Italy [2 folders]

Venice

Germany

United States [2 folders]

Sweden

Norway

Netherlands [2 folders]

Leerdam, The Netherlands

Japan

Glass Today

Venetian

Bohemian Glass Exhibit

Box 3: Glassware

Notes from The Studio

Design in Glass

Victorian Glass

The Art of Glass

Picture Book, Victorian Glass (Introduction)

Art Union/Art Journal notes [2 folders]

Pottery and Glass Trade Review, 1877-1880 notes

Journal of Design and Manufatures, 1849-1852 notes

Glass circle [4 folders]

Box 4: Glassware

Glass articles by R.J. Charleston [2 folders]

Misc. correspondence on glass

General History and technique

Display of glass

Glass--19th century, general

Museum registers/acquisitions of glass vessels contemporary at time of acquisition

Glass hats

Flint glass

Exhibitions, 1850-1860

Exhibitions, 1861-1870 [2 folders]

Exhibitions, 1871-1880

Exhibitions, 1881-1890

Exhibitions, 1891-1900

Glass chandeliers, lamps, etc. [2 folders]

Box 5: Glassware

Peasant glass

Paper weights

Fancy glass or art glass

A.M. Silber catalog, 1882 [2 folders]

Harrods catalog, Glass Dept. 1895-1896

Silber and Flemming catalogs [3 folders]

Army-Navy Store Catalog, Glass Dept. 1907

Glass--English, 16th and 17th centuries

Glass--English, 18th century [2 folders]

Glass--English, 19th century (general)

Pressed glass plate

Patent office

Glass--England, Patent office design registers

Glass--English, 20th century

Box 6: Glassware

London

Pellat Glass--London

Glass from the city of London, Guild Hall Museum, 1968

Birmingham

West of England

Shropshire

Stourbridge--General [2 folders]

Northwood

Thomas Webb

Richardson

Stourbridge--John Davis

Bromsgrove

Stevens & Williams

Stourbridge--Glassworks--Guest Bros.

Stourbridge--Glassworks--Red House, Philip Pargeter

Stourbridge--Glassworks--Joseph Webb

Victoria and Albert Museum--Gerda Flockinger

Catalog--Jewellry and glass by Flockinger and Herman

Book notes:

Introductory Chapter

Early Cut Glass

Early Design Reform

Coloured and Opaque Glass

Apsley Pellat

Engraved Glass

Etched glass--Sand blast

Carving Techniques

Stourbridge fancy glass

Pressed glass

Influence of the aesthetic

Silver--19th century British

Silver--19th century American

Silver--20th century

Box 7: Photographs of glass

Pressed glass [2 folders]

Influence of arts and crafts

Novelties

Engraved and etched glass

Cut glass, 1840-1855

Colored opaque and silvered early Victorian style of decoration

Box 8: Ceramics

Ceramics

Ceramics, jewelry, teapots [2 folders]

V & A acquisitions of contemporary ceramics, 1845-1867

Ceramics, 18th century British

Ceramics, 19th century--General

Haviland

Ceramics--American

Ceramics, 20th century--General

Ceramics, 19th century--British

Ceramics, 20th century--British

Bulwer teapots

Ceramics--British Lancashire potteries

Dorset Poole potteries

Devon potteries

Durham Sunderland potteries

Durham Stockton-on-Tees potteries

Bristol potteries

Ceramics, 19th and 20th centuries, British Studio Pottery

Northumb, New Castle

Silver Studio

Ceramics--British--Derbys

Staffs Burslem Moorcroft

Shropshire

London--Fulham

London--DeMorgan

London--Doultons

Box 9: Ceramics

London--China painting studios

London potteries

Wedgewood--Susie Cooper

Wedgewood--Etruria Barlaston

Emile Lessore

Stafforshire--Cobridge

Staffordshire--Cobridge--Fenton

Staffordshire--Hanley

Staffordshire--Longport

Staffordshire--Longton

Staffordshire--Stoke

Staffordshire--Stoke-Copeland

Staffordshire--Stoke-Minton

Staffordshire--Tunstall

Staffordshire (West Smethwick) Ruskin

Surrey

Sussex

Worchester

York

Ceramics--Czechoslovakia

Ceramics--Denmark

Ceramics--France [2 folders]

Ceramics--Germany

Ceramics--Holland

Ceramics--Hungary

Ceramics--Ireland

Ceramics--Russia

Ceramics--Sweden

Arts and Crafts movement

Tiles

Box 10: Other decorative arts

Furniture--19th century designs

Silver--Pre 19th century British

Silver exhibition--Japan-Austria

The Jewelers Art

British and Irish Silver

Metalwork

Textiles [2 folders]

Chintz articles

Greeting cards

Picture postcards

Popular art and social history

Victorian and Edwardian decorative arts

English creamware

Photographs, Circulation 1966

Display photographs for traveling exhibit of Victorian glass

Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museums

Box 11: Oversize

Clarice Cliff

Photograph of a glassmaker

Glass--London--Powells [2 folders]

Glass and ceramics--Hungary

Victorian glass

Design reform

Silber and Fleming

2 scrapbooks about glassware