Papers relating to his designs for furniture for Edward Green

Item author: Thomas Jeckyll
Item date: 1866 - 76
Grant Value: 5,250
Item cost: 10,500
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Seven letters from Jeckyll to Green, which provide a fascinating insight both into the designers intentions and into his relationship with his client, as well as sketches of furniture and other details. The collection also includes an album of photographs of metal work deigned by Jeckyll incorporating oriental motifs and the equally fashionable sunflower for projects as yet unidentified

Item Provenance
Sold by the executors of Sir Stephen Lycett Green, Christies 1999