The upholstered furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The upholstered furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (v.2)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A528
Creator(s): Wood, Lucy (1985-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Lady Lever Art Gallery (Host institution)
Publisher: Yale University Press; in association with National Museums Liverpool
Publication city: New Haven [Connecticut]; London : Liverpool
Date(s): [2008]
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731527
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019934597505181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1101-1126) and index.
Volume I -- UPholstered furniture in Britain c. 1690-1820 // design, manufacture and trade -- late baroque upholstery and seating c. 1960-1720 and the influence of daniel marot -- the 'indian' or 'bended-back' chair c. 1715-40 -- techinical developments: construion -- technical developments: upholstery -- the drop -in seat -- the simulated drop-in seat -- the concealed drop-in seat-frame -- the 'closed' back and seat -- lipped and square-bordered upholstery structures -- welting, nailing and tufting -- the stitched edge -- stuffing materials in seat furniture and beds -- bedding support -- webbing and base cloths -- the ascendancy of the carver and the use of walnut // Patronage and usage // 19th-century eclecticusm and collecting c. 1820-1900 // lord leverhulms's taste in upholstered furniture c. 1890-1925 // Explanation -- seat furniture // Volume 2 -- footstools -- beds -- coach model // index of botanicals names of timbers -- concordances -- concordance between the lady lever art
gallery inventory and the present catalogue -- concordance between the 1928 catalogue ( Macquoid and Tatlock) and the present catalogue // Bibliography and abbrevations -- general abbreviations -- lady lever art gallery archives -- other primary sources -- published works
Appendixes -- 1. upholstered furniture, and other seatingm from the collection of W. H. Lever; 1st Viscount Leverhulme -- 2. Bradfield Hall, near Reading, Berkshire: extracts from the catalogue of the household furniture, sold on the premises 4-7 July 1898 -- 3. Painted silk chair covers: correspondence between W. H. Lever and Frank Partridge, July- August 1916 -- 4. Cardinal Joseph Fesch: extracts from the inventory of his house in Paris, the Hôtel Hocquart de Montfermeil and the Hôtel Lefoulon, 23 December 1814- 29 March 1815 -- 5. Cardinal Joseph Fesch: extracts from the catalogue of his sales in Paris, 17 June 1816 and folloring days: the seat furntiure , and pieces purchased by the Duke of Wellington -- 7. Abercairny, Perthshire: furniture reputedly from the Fesch collection, sold from Abercairny, 27 June 1946 -- 8. Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire: HUmphrey Skelton's bill to William Blathwayt, May-August 1702 -- 9. Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: documents recording early proposals for
State Bed -- 10. The development of joiners' screws in Britain by John Griffiths
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A528: Volume 1 contains loose photocopied review by Reinier Baarsen (Furniture History Society, number 176, November 2009).
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A528: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FC/27.
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