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Detailed Record

Title: chest of drawers

Object Name: chest of drawers

Artist/Maker: Burges, William
Role in production: Designer
Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Date: 1865 = 1870

Accession Number: 1985.1
Location on Display: First floor: Pre-Raphaelites
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries

Physical Description

Medium / Material

wood
pine
painted
gilded

Support

Technique

Description

Chest of drawers in pine, gilded and painted with vignettes showing pictorial references to the contents (eg a gentleman with a napkin or towel; a girl mending a handkerchief or stockings) Painted by Charles Rossiter for William Burges

Dimensions

Type: object
Height: 104.8 cm
Width: 104.2 cm
Depth: 50.2 cm