The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Papworth, John Woody.

Title: Album

Dates: [ca. 1820-ca. 1860]

Call No.: Fol. 32

Acc. No.: 80x229

Quantity: 1 volume (ca.140 pages)

Location: 5 B 1

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

John Woody Papworth (1820-1870) was a British architect and antiquary best known for his heraldic reference book "Ordinary of British Armorials." He was the first son of John Buonarotti Papworth (1775-1847), a prolific British architect much employed in the alteration and decoration of country homes, who published drawings and essays.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Consists of an album of original drawings and tracings of architectural designs and furniture styles of the early Victorian period, compiled in scrapbook form. Though the drawings were executed by several different people, the majority of the signed drawings are by John Woody Papworth. Some are signed by his more renowned father, the English architect and designer John Buonarotti Papworth.

The many architectural drawings record ornament and detail in a large number of churches and other public buildings, both English and Italian. In addition, there are 138 drawings for chairs (especially chair backs), 55 designs for tables, 28 dressing tables, 20 hat or clothes racks, 50 designs for draperies (including cornices and valances of remarkable beauty), 3 game tables, 20 music stools, 3 fire screens, 2 candelabra and 1 chandelier, bed steps and beds, sewing stands, desks, settees, 22 sideboards, 1 piano, mouldings in great variety, 1 girandole, and approximately 50 mirrors, baby carriages, invalid carriages and lawn chairs, and innumerable couches and sofas.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Papworth, John Buonarotti.

Topics:

Architectural drawing.

Architecture - Sketch-books.

Architecture – Details.

Church architecture - Details.

Public architecture.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Furniture - Drawings.

Furniture, Victorian.

Chairs.

Seating (Furniture)

Mirrors.

Tables.

Draperies in interior decoration.

Drawings.

Sketches.

Albums.

Architects.

Furniture designers.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 5 B 1

List of people and places depicted in Fol. 32 (acc. 80x229)

(list of objects follows)

Abbey, Sherborne 62

Adelphi Institute 21

Athenian Marbles 24

Bishop Russell's Chapel 28

Blore, E. 63b

Bourne 17

Broughton 19

Cathedral Church 23

Cathedral, Freiburg 13

Cathedral, Limburg 13, 32a

Cathedral, Lincoln 17, 28

Chanty 21

Chapel, Bishop Russell's 28

Church, St. Nicholas 23

Convent 60

Cooper, Mr. 119

Freiburg Cathedral 13

Habershon, M. 18

Harrison, Mr. & Mrs. 21

Ingham, T. 15

Kirkburn Church 23

Kyd, Alexander (Lt. Gen.) 28

Kyd, Mrs. 28

Limburg Cathedral 13, 32a

Lincoln Cathedral 17, 28

Little, Thomas 44

Lucan, Carl 23

Manor House 14

Nelson [Lord] 43

Olto (of Stockbaum & Olto) 161

Papworth, John Buonarotti 25

Papworth, John Woody 43

Pugin 12, 14

Rhea 21

Russell, Bishop (Chapel) 28

Russmann 161

Samlesbury 18

Sharp, R. H. 60

Shelton 14

Sherborne.Abbey 62

Society of Arts 21

St. James [Cathedral] 17

St. Martin's [Cathedral] 17

St. Mary's [Church] 19, 23

St. Nicholas Church 23

Stockbaum & Olto 161

Taylor 43

Vaderveid 21

Object index to Fol. 32

bed 64

box 63

bracket 84

candelabra 53

carriage [no page number listed]

ceiling 12

chaise 116-117

chair 111-116, 118-123, 130-133

chair, invalid 135

chair, lawn [no page number listed]

chair table 133

chandelier [no page number listed]

children, pictured 21, 106

columns 47

cornice [no page number listed]

desk 70-71

door 58

door, cellar 24

draperies 15, 27, 72, 74, 77-79

dressing table [no page number listed]

gates 35

girondole [no page number listed]

glazenry 63

gondola 30

looking glass 85-86, 95

leather 71

marble 59

marble, Athenian 24

mirror 96-97, 103

ornament 25

piano [no page number listed]

rack, clothes [no page number listed]

rack, hat [no page number listed]

screen, fire 67

settee [no page number listed]

sideboard [no page number listed]

sofa, pictured 117, 124-126

stand, sewing [no page number listed]

stool 69, 73, 81, 86

stool, music [no page number listed]

table 63, 67-69, 73

table, game [no page number listed]

table, marble top 23

valance [no page number listed]

vase 24, 161

walnut (wood) 71