Furniture with Candelabra and Interior Decoration
Medium
Illustrations: engraving, etching, hand-coloring
Dimensions
15 3/16 x 10 13/16 x 3/8 in. (38.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.16
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Richard Hicks Bridgens|William Pickering|Henry Shaw · 1785–1846
Richard Hicks Bridgens (1785–1846) was a British sculptor, architect, designer, draughtsman, and lithographer whose career bridged furniture design, interior decoration, and architecture during the Regency and early Victorian eras. Born in 1785, he began his professional training in Liverpool, where he was apprenticed to the prominent sculptor and cabinet-maker George Bullock. Bridgens lived and w...