Observations On Metallic Art. By M. Digby Wyatt, Architect. - Extracted From "The Art Treasures Of The United Kingdom," Edited By J.B. Waring, Esq. Director of the Museum of Ornamental Art at the Manchester Exhibition of 1857.
: Published By Day & Son, Lithographers To The Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields., 1857.
Physical Description
[2], [17-]48 p.: [18] illus.; 398 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.p.] - [Text with illus.].
Responsibility Note
Most illustrations are signed as drawn by R. Dudley.
References
On the background of the Manchester exhibition see J. Seed, 'Commerce and the liberal arts: the political economy of art in Manchester 1775-1860', in J. Seed and J. Wolff, edd., The Culture of capital: art, power and the nineteenth-century middle class (1988), p.45-81; U. Finke, 'The Art-treasures Exhibition', in Art and architecture in Victorian Manchester, ed. J.H.G. Archer (1985), p.102-26.
Summary Note
The text is divided under the headings of Personal, Corporate, Military and Ecclesiastical metalwork. The illustrations show European and Middle Eastern examples.
Provenance
The title page is inscribed in ink, 'The Library of the Royal Academy with the Author's compliments - Decr. 1857.'
Binding Note
19th-century quarter green morocco, mottled papered boards; spine lettered 'Digby Wyatt. Textiles And Metallic Art - 1857-58.' and 'R.A.' Bound with one other.
Subject
Art Treasures Exhibition (Manchester: 1857)
Metalwork - Europe - Middle East - History
Collections - Great Britain - History
Exhibitions - Great Britain - Manchester - History - 19th century
Essays - Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century