FRANCIS BEDFORD and possibly others

'Designs by W. Burges', 1869

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FRANCIS BEDFORD and possibly others
'Designs by W. Burges', 1869
Album of sixty-two albumen prints, various sizes to approx. 9¼ x 11½ in. or the reverse, four signed F Bedford, four signed W. Burges and one signed W. Burges Desr. F. Bedford Ph[ot] in the negatives, the majority mounted one-per-page, six additional albumen prints loosely laid in at end of album, titled in ink [?in Burges's hand] on mounts, ink manuscript title Designs by W. Burges: 15 Buckingham Street, Strand. W. C. on front blank, bound by G. Pymm [George Pymm, 15 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London] [? after a design by Burges], printed bookplate inside front cover from Treverbyn Vean, olive green morocco, front cover lettered in gilt, Photographs Charles Lygon Cocks 1869, both covers with all over geometrical design incorporating fleur-de-lys and linked circles within squares, fleur-de-lys within each spine compartment, spine and extremities rubbed, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., oblong 4to.

来源

Sotheby's Belgravia, 18 November 1977

拍品专文

A fine presentation album compiled by the Victorian architect and designer William Burges (1827-81), for one of his most important private clients, Charles Lygon Cocks. Burges had worked for Cocks circa 1858, adapting and extending his home at Treverbyn Vean, Devon. The album documents the wide range of Burges's professional and occasionally personal interests including copies of nine of his architectural drawings, eight studies of sculpture, furniture, whole room interiors at his Buckingham Street address, ceiling and wall paintings, silver and other decorative art objects. The majority of the interiors and many of the objects including the elephant ink stand (illus.) being described in the captions as being the artist's own designs for himself.

A two-volume photographic record of the architect's work was compiled by his son-in-law a few years after Burges's death, using many of the same photographs. These were augmented by additional views inside Tower House, the home Burges designed for himself and occupied shortly before he died, one of which is included loosely inserted at the end of this album. The present volume includes pictures of ..... items not included in the later work, one of which, an inlaid table designed for T. A. Garnett, similar to another known as the 'Wheel of Fortune' table, is not known.

A list of subjects is available on request.

Christie's would like to thank Professor Clive Wainwright of the Victoria & Albert Museum for his help researching this lot.