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Pocket case of English Drawing instruments
small case covered in shagreen containg tightly packed drawing instruments, known as a 6-inch English Drawing set; The case design wasvery popular and was to endure for almost a century. Now dubbed etuis, they were originally called pocket magazine cases and were made in two sizes, 6-inch sets and 4½-inch sets. The latter, according to William Ford Stanley, were used entirely by architects and civ…
Type of item
- Drawing Instruments
- late 18th Century
Medium
- shagreen
Type of item
- Drawing Instruments
- late 18th Century
Medium
- shagreen
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- 1780
- 1780
Identifier
- jersm/2015/00032/001
Year
- 1780
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-04-19T16:26:45.916Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T18:06:43.773Z