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In the centre a group of figures of Liberality, Friendship and Benevolence. \nProfile, Full size, 173 x 345 mm. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Baily, Edward Hodges","id":"N11709"},"association":{"text":"Maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Flaxman, John RA","id":"N1543"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"AAT54196"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil, pen and ink and brown wash on wove paper.\r\nThe sheet is watermarked 1806. 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A tracing of a Flaxman drawing showing the same figures inscribed with their names is in the John Gawler Bridge sketch book in the  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (23.68.1 leaf 18).\nA silver gilt inkstand with the same figures, pots and feet but with a shortened base was marked by Philip Rundell and hallmarked 1822-23 (Christie's London, <u>The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al- Tajir Collection</u>, 1989 Cat 150). The inkstand was recorded in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton in 1919.    \n\nThis design is on folio 8 recto included in an album containing 55 designs drawn directly on 27 sheets (sometimes several to a page), for gold and silver plate, including wine-coolers, tureens, inkstands, a teapot, a kettle, candelabra etc., related to the production of the Royal goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell between c.1809 and c.1820. (E.70- 124-1964)\rThe album pages are of white wove paper watermarked 1806, full-bound in blue leather, gold tooled, lettered on the spine ‘Designs for Plate etc. by John Flaxman’. With the bookplate of John Roland Abbey (1894 –1969). Bound by William Wood. The back fly- leaf is inscribed “JA, 1070/ 13:9:1935”.\rAll the drawings are by one hand, most probably that of the sculptor Edward Hodges Baily. He became a pupil of John Flaxman in 1807, at a time when Flaxman was designing silver for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. He joined Rundell Bridge and Rundell in 1815 as “a modeller and designer” and in 1826 became its chief modeller and designer. In 1833 he began working for the firm of Storr and Mortimer. \rSome of the drawings are most probably copies by Baily of his own designs, while others are copied or adapted from designs by John Flaxman and Thomas Stothard, as well as other, anonymous, designers. The clean condition of the album, and the range of dates of the pieces shown, in addition to their unchronological arrangement, suggest that the album was made as a fair-copy record of pre-existing design drawings, all made about 1820, although some of the drawings seem also have been used as part of a design process. The drawings copied from John Flaxman and Thomas Stothard imitate the graphic styles of the originals.  \rThe album was bought from Marlborough Rare Books on 24th March 1964 for 550 pounds.\r","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design for a silver ink stand with glass containers by Edward Hodges Baily (1788- 1867) c. 1820","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1964.</u> London: HMSO, 1965.\n\nC. Oman, \"A Problem of Artistic Responsibility: The Firm of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, <u>Apollo Magazine</u>, March 1966, p.174- 183.\n\n\nBury, S. (1966) \"The lengthening shadow of Rundell's\", <u>Connoisseur Magazine</u> CLXI, no.648, p.79; no.649, p.152; no.650, p.218.\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"Dining","id":"THES275701"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.85-1964"],"accessionNumberNum":"85","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1964,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-12","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}