Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls | Lulls | V&A Explore The Collections (original) (raw)
Drawing of a string of forty-seven graduated pearls on a sheet of vellum pasted into an album of jewellery designs. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.
Object details
| Categories | DesignsJewellery |
|---|---|
| Object type | Album |
| Titles | Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls (generic title)Drawing of a string of forty-seven graduated pearls (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Designs in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold, in a calf skin albumCalfVellumPaperPencilPen and InkBodyGoldDrawingWash |
| Brief description | Drawing of a string of forty-seven graduated pearls on a sheet of vellum pasted into an album (in 25 parts) of designs for jewellery (aigrettes, rings, pendants, etc) by Arnold Lulls. Dutch School, ca. late 16th to early 17th century. |
| Physical description | Drawing of a string of forty-seven graduated pearls on a sheet of vellum pasted into an album of jewellery designs. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold. |
| Dimensions | Size of album height: 22cmWidth: 155cmSize of sheet height: 39cmWidth: 14.1cmDimensions taken from departmental notes |
| Subjects depicted | DesignsJewellery |
| Bibliographic reference | Referenced in: Hayward, J. 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Queen Anne of Denmark'. Archaeologia. v.108, pp. 227-237. London, 1986. |
| Collection | Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection |
| Accession number | D.6:22-1896 |
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