Fire screen
after Samuel Edmund Waller (Gloucester 1850 - London 1903)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Oak, glass, canvas, paint
Measurements
139 x 108 x 47.5 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1147005
Summary
An oak-framed fire screen, English, circa 1900. With concave curved and line-carved toprail between line-carved uprights topped by turned bun finials. On divergent supports. A part-painted, part-printed canvas under glass. The canvas depicting an interior, a man seated at a laden table with two dogs, within upper and lower borders of fruit and flowers. After S. E. Waller (RA 1896) and reputedly executed by a 'Miss Nichols'. Like many mirrors and screens at Erddig, there are pasted watercolour birds and flowers to the reverse of the screen.
Provenance
Listed in as amongst the contents of the Library in an inventory taken at Erddig in 1967. Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
after Samuel Edmund Waller (Gloucester 1850 - London 1903), artist