Models in gesso duro for Bell Plate, Door handles and Key Escutcheons

Created by Osmund Weeks
Finished by Walter Crane
Designed by Walter Crane

Date: 1888
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: architecture (fixtures and fittings)

Object type: door furniture, model

Material: processed and vegetal - gessoduro

Technique: modelled

Notes: '[...] modelled with a brush in gesso duro for electro silver, the bell handles for copper' (1888 ACES catalogue, p. 139).

Citing this record

'Models in gesso duro for Bell Plate, Door handles and Key Escutcheons', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1209501738, accessed 25 Mar 2023]