Illustrations of furniture, candelabra, musical instruments from the great exhibitions of London & Paris: with examples of similar articles from royal palaces and noble mansions
A furniture and decorative arts plate book by John Braund, published in 1858, presenting pieces shown at the London and Paris world exhibitions alongside comparable items from royal palaces and noble mansions. The plates are engraved elevations and perspective views of cabinets, a console table and a sideboard with figure panels, carved columns and glazed doors, drawn for a trade and design readership. A designer can take from them the scale of mid-nineteenth-century cabinetry, with dense ornament, caryatid supports, and diamond-patterned glazing rendered in fine line.
