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, 'Here are represented the motifs of decorative painting which one meets everywhere in the ornamentation ', paper/ink, various makers, Russia/England, [1870-1885]

Rectangular sheet of printed paper depicting details of motifs of decorative painting.

Designed: Russia

Made: South Kensington Museum; London, England; 1882


Owned: Trubner & Co;

printed above plate u.c. "19."
paper label adhered under plate l.c. "19-32. - Here are represented the motifs of decorative painting which / one meets every-where in the ornamentation of public and / private buildings, upon the ceilings, columns, walls, boxes, / looking-glasses and other domestic objects. We have only / found room in these plates (19-32) for those ornaments, which / distinguish themselves from others by the originality of their design or of their colours. Bokhara is so rich in ornaments / that, after years devoted to these researches, on could not / bring forward all the designs from this inexhaustible source. / At first the designer astonishes you by the facility with which / he draws from the same design dozens of new models, with out / varying the colours at all. He is indefatigable in his work, / and you marvel at the simple and practical manner in which / he executes the most complicated geometic forms. There is / nothing suprising in this: almost an Italian by temperament, / he takes to himself like an Italian, the experience of thousands / of years."

97/25/19

554 mm

374 mm