The grammar of ornament

Collection History

The digital collection draws upon the Library's exhibition, "Victorian Ornament: Excerpts from Design History," Dec. 9, 1989 - March 10, 1990, Edna Barnes Salomon Room, and supplements it with additional works through the 1920s. Holdings from the Victorian period, 1839-1900, are particularly strong covering America and Western Europe; these are often pattern or illustrated advice books. Other movements with representative, and often rare, titles include: Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, and Art Deco.

Background

The Art & Architecture Collection has long been a repository of unusual plate books, with a core antiquarian collection dating to the initial creation of the Art Division. Many came from the private library of the architect Thomas Hastings, of the partnership, Carrere and Hastings, responsible for the Library's landmark classical revival building on Fifth Avenue. In the second half of the twentieth century, the department acquired additional significant titles retrospectively in response to growing recognition of the collection's depth and rarity.

Collection Data

Names
Day & Son (Printer of plates)
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 (Author)
Bedford, Francis, 1816-1894 (Lithographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1856
Place: London
Publisher: Day & Son
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection
Shelf locator: JQJ 05-14
Topics
Decoration and ornament
Design
Genres
Books
Prints
Notes
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
Statement of responsibility: by Owen Jones ; Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament ; one hundred folio plates, drawn on stone by F. Bedford ; and printed in colours by Day and son.
Physical Description
Extent: [110] p., [101] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 57 cm.
Lithographs
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 2111842
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14443151
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 713c0af0-c6cc-012f-fe84-58d385a7bc34
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