- Title
- Gillow & Co. Drawings
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- Creator
- Gillow & Co.
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- Description
- The English furniture making firm Gillow and Company produced these drawings of neoclassical furniture forms and interiors. Beginning in 1730 as a small cabinet shop, Gillow grew to become one of the most successful manufacturers of English furniture for the next 200 years. The firm sold furniture to a wide range of social classes in Great Britain and throughout the world, successfully marketing their furniture through sketches of its products, as this group of drawings suggests. The drawings illustrate a wide variety of pieces, ranging from upholstered armchairs to bedsteads, commodes to writing tables, and pier glass surmounts to sofas. Some drawings show painted furniture, complementary textiles, window cornice designs with draperies, and interior views. Two drawings were inspired by depictions in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book of 1793. While the drawings appear to be of furniture made between 1780 and 1810, the Dutch-made paper used for them contains watermarks that were not used until 1845. It is likely that the drawings were copied from an earlier job book. Many drawings are numbered, and the initials E.S.-referring to Estimate Sketch Books produced by the company between 1787 and 1798-mark 50 of them.
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- Format
- ["watercolor"]
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- Subjects
- ["Furniture--Drawings"]
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Gillow & Co. Drawings
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Drawings of two square-back side chairs
Drawing of two Chippendale style fiddle-back side chair
Drawing of a side chair
Drawing of an arched top fan back side chair
Drawings of two shield-back side chairs
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of two shield-back side chairs
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of two heart back chairs
Drawings of a heart-back chair and a shield back chair
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of a shield-back arm chair and square-back side chair
Drawing of a shield-back arm chair
Drawings of two armchairs
Drawing of an armchair
Drawings of two square-back side chairs
Drawing of an upholstered armchair
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of two square-back side chairs
Drawing of a heart-back chair
Drawings of two hall chairs
Drawing of a painted hall chair
Drawings of two square-back painted arm chairs
Drawing of a painted square-back side chair
Drawing of a painted square-back side chair
Drawings of two square-back side chairs
Drawings of two painted square-back side chairs
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of two painted shield-back side chairs
Drawings of two side chairs
Drawings of two painted fancy armchairs
Drawings of two fancy painted armchairs
Drawings of two fancy armchairs
Drawings of two painted fancy armchairs
Drawings of two painted shield-back fancy chairs
Drawings of a side chair and an arm chair
Drawings of two chairs
Drawings of two painted square-back armchairs
Drawings of two upholstered armchairs
Drawings of two armchairs
Drawings of two painted square-back upholstered armchairs
Drawings of an armchair and a klismos chair
Drawing of a shield back cabriole armchair
Drawing of a painted and carved square-back side chair
Drawing of an upholstered reading or library chair
Drawing of an upholstered Duchesse
Drawing of a square-back settee with arms
Drawings of two upholstered window seats
Drawing of an upholstered sofa with carved rails
Drawing of an upholstered sofa with carved rails and canopy top rail
Drawing of a square-back sofa with tufted upholstery and carved rails
Drawing of an upholstered demi-lune sofa with carved seat rail
Drawing of an upholstered demi-lune sofa with carved rails
Drawing of an upholstered sofa with carved front rails
Drawing of an upholstered sofa with carved rails
Drawing of a duchesse
Drawing of an upholstered sofa with carved front and top rail
Drawing of an upholstered cabriole sofa in the French style
Drawing of an upholstered square-back sofa with painted floral motif
Drawing of a mahogany cellarette with domed lid on hinges
Drawings of two demilune card tables
Drawing of a cellarette with circular top
Drawings of two square top card tables
Drawing of an oval mahogany cistern in a loose frame
Drawing of a circular cistern on a three-legged base
Drawing of a mahogany sideboard
Drawing of a rectangular top sideboard with rounded corners
Drawing of a rectangular top sideboard with rounded central section
Drawing of a rectangular top sideboard with rounded central section
Drawing of a sideboard with veneered panels and crossbanding
Demilune sideboard with veneered panels and crossbanding; central pediment with floral motif; raised on fluted legs.
Drawing of a corner sideboard with veneered panels
Drawing of a demilune sideboard with concave central section
Drawing of a demi-lune sideboard with concave central section
Drawing of a sideboard with serpentine top
Drawing of a rectangular top sideboard with curved corners
Drawing of a demi-lune sideboard built for a circular niche in wall
Drawing of a mahogany urn-shaped vase on pedestal
Drawing of a mahogany sideboard
Drawing of a mahogany sideboard
Drawing of a demi-lune pier table with veneered panels on rail
Drawing of a mahogany urn-shaped vase on pedestal
Drawing of a mahogany urn-shaped vase on pedestal
Drawing of a mahogany urn-shaped vase on pedestal
Drawing of a square top writing table with leather cover
Drawing of a rectangular top library table with leather cover
Drawing of a painted dressing screen in three sections
Drawing of a rectangular top writing table with leather top
Drawing of a rectangular top writing table with concave central section
Drawing of a demi-lune two-tiered pier table
Drawing of a bureau wardrobe
Drawing of a demi-lune two-tiered pier table
Drawing of a secretaire and bookcase with Tuscan cornice
Drawing of a small secretaire and bookcase
Drawing of a small secretaire and bookcase in three tiers
Drawing of a mahogany gardevine for the storage of wine
Drawing of a writing table
Drawings of square-top wardrobe table and a circular top sewing stand
Drawing of a secretaire and bookcase
Drawing of a mahogany breakfront bookcase in the Gothic style
Design for a coach door
Drawing of a writing desk or French secretaire
Drawing of a two-tiered circular top dumb waiter
Design for a semicircular night table
Drawing of a shield-back dressing glass
Drawings of a bookshelf and a lap desk with drawer
Drawing of a satinwood pier table with three drawers
Drawing of a bowfront chest of drawers
Drawing of a demi-lune pier table with veneered top
Drawings of a secretaire and a painted demi-lune pier table
Drawing of a pembroke table
Drawing of a painted demi-lune two-tiered pier table
Drawing of a painted demi-lune two-tiered pier table
Drawing of a satinwood pier table
Drawing of a satinwood writing table with tambour top
Drawing of a writing table with bookshelf and a writing table with cupboard
Drawings of a corner basin stand and a corner washing stand
Drawing of a rectangular top dressing table and a hanging bookshelf with drawers
Drawing of a demi-lune commode
Drawings of two writing tables
Drawing of a secretaire on legs
Drawings of two views of a dressing table
Drawing of a mahogany demi-lune commode
Drawings of a wall decoration or surmount and a girandole with urn and foliate motif
Drawings of two wall decorations or surmounts
Drawings of two wall decoration or pier glass surmounts
Drawings of a wall decoration or surmount
Drawing of a mahogany dressing table
Drawing of a wall decoration or surmount
Drawing of a chest of drawers
Drawing of gilded wall decoration or surmount
Drawing of a gilded neoclassical pier glass frame
Drawings of two gilded girandoles
Drawing of a mahogany wardrobe
Drawing of a gilded pier glass frame
Drawing of a mahogany ladies' wardrobe
Drawings of two gilded girandoles
Drawing of a tripod candlestand
Drawing of a candlestand
Drawing of a pier glass frame
Drawing of an oval gilded frame for a looking glass and a carved candlestand
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a carved and gilded decorative surmount
Drawing of a carved and gilded decorative surmount
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass and table
Drawing of a carved and gilded overmantel mirror and frame
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass
Drawing of a shield firescreen on tripod base
Drawings of a carved and gilded decorative festoon and two oval firescreens
Drawings of two standing firescreens
Drawings of two firescreen stands
Drawings of a candlestand with tree feet and a three-tired demi-lune stand
Drawing of a dressing screen with two halves
Drawings of two firescreens
Detail drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass frame and surmount
Detail drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass frame and surmount
Design drawing for an alcove bed
Drawing of a carved and gilded pier glass frame and surmount
Drawing of a couch bed with canopy
Drawing of a couch be with canopy
Sketch of a couch bed with canopy
Drawing of a carved and painted four poster bedstead
Drawing of a couch bed
Drawing of a carved and gilded window cornice with reefed curtain
Design drawings of two window cornices
Drawing of a pembroke table
Design drawings of three window cornices
Design drawing of a carved and gilded window cornice
Drawing of a carved and gilded window cornice
Drawing of a carved and gilded window cornice in the Gothic style
Drawing of a carved and painted window cornice
Drawing of a pembroke table with circular top
Sketches for inlaid oval panels.
Drawing of a canarywood cabinet
Drawing of a painted satinwood secretaire with globe
Drawing of a mahogany square chamber pot cupboard
Drawing of a rectangular top table with leaves
Drawing of a room view with window curtains