Artist's box
Ackermann & Co.
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany, Paint, Ceramic, Glass, Paper, Hair, Metal, Bone
Measurements
89 mm (H)318 mm (W)254 mm (D)
Place of origin
Strand
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335549.1
Summary
Artist's box - Mahogany cross banded box with brass hinges and lock containing three fitted trays: one (1335549.4) with 28 tablets of paint , each tablet embossed with its colour on one side and ‘Ackermanns Superfine Colours No.101, Strand’ on the other; a second (1335549.2) with a ceramic mixing dish with 3 circular indentations and one oblong one; and a third (1335549.3) containing five ceramic mixing trays. Two clear glass mixing bowls, one with broken rim, in shaped compartments, one each side of the single mixing dish. Beneath the try of paint blocks, 5 paint brushes with short bristles, handle ends pared and colour written on and a Roman number carved, one brush handle and 3 pencil crayons engraved.. Beneath the single mixing tray, 4 paint brush heads, crude tweezers, half a mussel shell with a piece of pastel in, a charcoal marker, chalk and 3 black paint blocks. Beneath the five trays, a number of wooden sticks, pencil crayons, brushes, a clutch pencil, a charcoal marker a pen, ivory smoother, and a label in bottom reads ‘Repository of Arts No.101, Strand, London. R.Ackermann’s superfine water colours, which he begs leave to recommend to the nobility, gentry, and artists in general, as being prepared with the utmost care and rendered free of all impurities’ followed by a list of products and prices. Beneath it all, a pull out drawer with fold-down brass handles, contains a strip of paper with remains of gold leaf, a crumpled piece of paper in the shape of the end of a house with brown lines, and a paper paint colour chart.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Ackermann & Co.