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Stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello
c. 1865
Thirteen photographs of stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello in Genoa. An inscription in a later hand on the original enclosure notes that the decoration was in place when (Joseph) Alf...
The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.
1969-1979
This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...
The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces, for the year 1769: containing, grand and elegant designs, proper to be executed in halls, salones, vestibules, guard rooms, state rooms, parlours, dining rooms, drawing rooms, anti rooms, music rooms, cabinets, bed rooms, dressing rooms, &c. Together with six plates of mouldings at large, ornamented with curious new enrichments. The whole neatly engraved on 32 copper-plates, from original drawings, by Robert Baldwin, architect. Vol. II
Baldwin, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, M
1769
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage and two final advertisement leaves. Bedford Copy A090 [another copy] is first item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bedford Copy A090 [another ...
The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces, for the year 1769: containing, grand and elegant designs, proper to be executed in halls, salones, vestibules, guard rooms, state rooms, parlours, dining rooms, drawing rooms, anti rooms, music rooms, cabinets, bed rooms, dressing rooms, &c. Together with six plates of mouldings at large, ornamented with curious new enrichments. The whole neatly engraved on 32 copper-plates, from original drawings, by Robert Baldwin, architect. Vol. II
Baldwin, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, M
1769
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage and two final advertisement leaves. Bedford Copy A090 [another copy] is first item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bedford Copy A090 [another ...
The chimney-Piece-Maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces: beginning with the most plain and simple, and gradually ascending to the most grand and magnificent, in the Antique, Modern, Ornamental and Gothic Taste; proper to be executed in Halls, Salones, Vestibules, Guard Rooms, State Rooms, Parlours, Dining Rooms, Drawing Rooms, Anti Rooms, Music Rooms, Cabinets, Bed Rooms, Dressing Rooms, &c. Together with a table shewing the just proportions they bear to the above several and respective rooms. The Whole neatly engraved on Fifty-Four Copper-Plates, From the original drawings of Thomas Milton, John Crunden, and Placido Columbani, Architects
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
MDCCLXVI. [1766]
Consists largely of plates with a letterpress titlepage.
Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
Vivares, François and others (1709-1780); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Charpentier, Francois-Phillipe? (1734-1817); Angier, Paul (1725-1757); Benoist, Antoine (1721-1770?); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste? (1721-1806); Eisen, Charles-Doinique-Joseph (1720-1778); Darly, Matthew (1721-1780); Le Romain, Jacques Dumont (1701-1781); Edwards, George (1694-1773); Peyrotte, Alexis (1699-1769); Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758); Babel, Pierre Edme (1775); Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788); Hemerick; Sympson, Samuel (1751); Vivares, Thomas (1744-1783)
[approximately 1754-1798]
Title supplied by cataloguer. Album or scrapbook containing eighteenth-century ornamental plates.
The complete modern joiner, or a collection of original designs in the present taste, for chimney-pieces and door-cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large; Frizes, Tablets, Ornaments for Pilasters, Bases, Sub-Bases and Cornices for Rooms, &c. With a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures, to rooms of any size: by N. Wallis, Architect
Wallis, N A M; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Willatt, William Henry (1868-1942)
[1772]
Plates dated: March 30, 1772. First item in a bound volume of two items. Bound with 2. A book of ornaments. / N. Wallis. London: I Taylor, 1771.
Nineteenth century art and architecture, the library of James O'Byrne, which will be sold at Christie's Great Rooms on Wednesday 22 July 1987
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Christie, Manson & Woods
[1987]
Place of sale: London.
Reigles generales de l'architecture, sur les cincq manieres d'edifices : ascauoir, thuscane, doric̄q, ionic̄q, corinthe, & cōposite, auec les exemples danticquitez, selon la doctrine de Vitruue
Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554); Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (1502-1550)
1545
Imprint from colophon, which also names the author. Signatures: A-S⁴.
Opera di Andrea Fulvio delle antichità della città di Roma, & delli edificij memorabili di quella
Fulvio, Andrea (1510-1543); Tramezzino, Michele (1579); Del Rosso, Paolo (1569)
1543
Printer from colophon. Printer's device on title page and 2F8 verso. Running title: Delle antichità delle città di Roma. Signatures: A-2F⁸ (2F7 blank).
Tratado nuevo de las cosas maravillosas de la alma ciudad de Roma. Adornado de muchas figuras, y en el se va discurriendo de trezientas, y mas iglesias
Felini, Pietro Martire; Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580); Parisio, Prospero; Muñoz, Alonso
1619
"Las antiguidades figuradas del alma ciudad de Roma" by Andrea Palladio with additions by Prospero Parisio: p. [257]-448. Title in red and black.
Lofthouse (Sweden)
January 1965
Wooden loftbod, or lofthouse, at the open-air Upplandsmuseet (?), Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). There are two rooms on each floor of the building.