Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership, 1760-1776 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300103892)

Vendor: Helen Clifford
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership, 1760-1776

$85.00

Silver in London: The Parker and Wakelin Partnership, 1760-1776

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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The firm of Parker and Wakelin was the foremost silversmith in London for much of the eighteenth century, supplying royalty, aristocracy, and gentry with both domestic and ceremonial plate. This fascinating book draws on the firm's records for this period to provide a remarkable account of patrons and their purchases and to investigate the social and economic structures on which the firm depended, revealing new information about the complex web of out-workers with specialist skills and raising questions of authorship.

Beautifully illustrated, the book is both a social history of consumption in Georgian London and an investigation into the world of working men and women at that time.

Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

Author: Helen Clifford
ISBN-10: 0300103891
ISBN-13: 9780300103892
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 10.98h x 8.98w x 0.96d
By Helen Clifford
By Helen Clifford
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Helen Clifford is an honorary fellow of the Department of History at the University of Warwick and an independent scholar involved in the planning of upcoming exhibitions at Somerset House, London, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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