The collection of prints with images principally of geometric and floral designs for interior wall and floor decoration, plus designs for jewellery and cermaics, and architect drawings. All are in portrait format with descriptive label struck on paper below the image. Printed, at lower left corner is [artist's] name and at right, the printer and number of the print.

Produced for the South Kensington Museum, London (now the Victoria & Albert Museum)

Date is 1882

Trubner & Co was the London agent for the Museum primarily for publications & printed matter. For evidence and documentation of this please refer to the archival files: MRS 8,Correspondence Sent - Trubner & Co. (London), 1884-1890, p.18-22; MRS 303, Requisitions, 1882-1896 (in bundle of requisitions submitted to Trustees, 23 Dec 1884); and MRS 117/4, Annual Report, 1885, p.26. The letters deal with the acquisition of books & periodicals, orders for specific works & include enclosures in settlements of accounts. Trubner & Co became Messrs Kegan Paul, French & Trubner & Co from the 14 January 1890.

Chromolithograph, 'Shaft of a column, with chapter & border contiguous', paper/ink, various makers, Russia/England, [1870-1885].

Rectangular sheet of printed paper depicting a column shaft design. The image has been executed using green, blue and orange inks predominantly.

Designed: Russia

Made: South Kensington Museum; London, England; 1882


Owned: Trubner & Co;

printed above plate u.c. "37."
paper adhered below plate l.c. "37. - Shaft of a column, with chapiter and border contiguous, of the mausoleum of the nurse of Tamerlane and her daughter, / erected by the wife of Tamerlane Bibi-Khanym who was a / Chinese Princess. An oral tradition syas that workmen brought / from China may have taken part in the construction."

97/25/15

554 mm

374 mm