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The photograph is thus a record of the work done and comes from an archive of designs and photographs from the firm.  \r\n\r\nFrancis Skidmore (1817-1896) was a leading Victorian metalworker in the Gothic Revival style, which was an architectural movement the nineteenth-century practitioners of which sought to revive medieval forms.  The ironwork scroll decoration for a door which is no.24 in the pattern book from Skidmore's Art Manufactures Company (Public Library, Coventry) has the same palmette at the centre top of the branches as that in this photograph.  Skidmore expressed his admiration for the medieval ironwork on a door at Merton College, Oxford in a letter to the Oxford Archaeological Society Journal.  This ironwork decoration and the one in the pattern book seem have partly influenced by this medieval source.","physicalDescription":"Photograph, brownish albumen print, of an ironwork fitting for a door showing scrolling acanthus foliage and flowers coming from a rectangular stem with a central palmette on a long, narrow sheet of photographic paper.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Skidmore, Francis Alexander (the younger)","id":"A8856"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"albumen","id":"AAT11802"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"albumen process","id":"AAT133274"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Albumen print on paper","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009BX6376"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC (VA)","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"M","shelf":"80","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Coventry","id":"x32527"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1865-1870","earliest":"1865-01-01","latest":"1870-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"10.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"26.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The provenance is the grand-daughter of Francis Skidmore.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph of an ironwork door fitting by Francis Skidmore, 1865-1870.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"'The ironwork scroll decoration for a door is a more elaborate version of one in the Skidmore and Co., pattern book. In a letter to the Oxford Archaeological Society Journal, Skidmore mentioned his admiration for the medieval ironwork on a door at Merton College, Oxford. This scroll and the ones in the pattern book seem to be derived, at least in part, from this medieval source.'\r\n\r\nAnnette Wickham, RF 2001/1166.\r\n\r\nThe ironwork scroll decoration for a door which is no.24 .in the pattern book from Skidmore's Art Manufactures Company (Public Library, Coventry) has the same palmette at the centre top of the branches.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"ironwork","id":"AAT15338"},{"text":"albumen prints","id":"AAT127121"},{"text":"albumen process","id":"AAT133274"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.416-2006"],"accessionNumberNum":"416","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2006,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-05","recordCreationDate":"2007-10-31","availableToBook":false}}