Two pairs of Victorian papier-mch handscreens

JENNENS & BETTRIDGE

細節
Two pairs of Victorian papier-mch handscreens
Jennens & Bettridge
One pair shaped as a stylized petal, painted with romantic scenes, one signed Brigg and Alarmed and inscribed Jennens & Bettridge, mounted on turned wood handles with gilt decoration; the other pair of shaped fan outline with painted landscape scenes, one inscribed Near Trevl and the other Near Brussels both with initials J & B, mounted on gilt wood turned handles
Former - 16in. (42cm.) latter - 16in. (41.3cm.) high
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Shirley Spaulding DeVoe, English Papier-Mch of the Georgian and Victorian Periods Wesleyan University Press, 1971. On page 43 reference is made to Jennens & Bettridge's employment of a number of painters from the Birmingham School of Design.