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Lot Essay
An 1878 pencil sketch by Edward William Godwin of a fender in Frederick Sandys's appartment at Spenser Street, London 1878, illustrates a closely related design made by Barnard, Bishop & Barnard to Jeckyll's design. The inscription reads 'Sandys Fender 6 semicircles in length..'. This is now preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum's Jeckyll archive and illustrated by Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnot, Thomas Jeckyll, New York, 2003, fig. 2-39. Further illustrations contribute to verifying this fender as a Jeckyll design, as show by a pencil sketch of a drawing room fireplace at Greyfriars, Norwich, by Thomas Raffles Davison, 1883, from 'Visits to Great Industries', inscribed 'A drawing room fireplace with the sunflower dogs & Barnard's grate, fender, mantel etc at 'Greyfriars' the residence of Alf. Barnard Esq.', (Soros ibid,fig. 2-47). A version also appears in an 1892 photograph of the Peacock Room. (Soros ibid,fig.5-71).
Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881) established contact with the Norfolk based iron foundry of Barnard, Bishop & Barnard, early in his career from the 1850s when he set-up his own architectural practice in Norwich. Jeckyll achieved acclaim and a successful breakthrough in his career upon the realisation of a pair of wrought iron gates, designed for Barnard, Bishop & Barnard in 1859, and exhibited at the International Exhibition in 1862. His reputation in his home county of Norfolk was raised higher, when the gates were given by the people of Norfolk to the Prince of Wales as a wedding present in 1863.
Jeckyll was heavily immersed in the group of London based artists, poets, authors, designers and architects who cultivated a fascination in the art of Japan from the 1850s, inspired further the Japanese Court at the International Exhibition, 1862.
Thomas Jeckyll (1827-1881) established contact with the Norfolk based iron foundry of Barnard, Bishop & Barnard, early in his career from the 1850s when he set-up his own architectural practice in Norwich. Jeckyll achieved acclaim and a successful breakthrough in his career upon the realisation of a pair of wrought iron gates, designed for Barnard, Bishop & Barnard in 1859, and exhibited at the International Exhibition in 1862. His reputation in his home county of Norfolk was raised higher, when the gates were given by the people of Norfolk to the Prince of Wales as a wedding present in 1863.
Jeckyll was heavily immersed in the group of London based artists, poets, authors, designers and architects who cultivated a fascination in the art of Japan from the 1850s, inspired further the Japanese Court at the International Exhibition, 1862.