There are one or two other sketches of Gillows' Windsors which survive and they all seem to have this slightly curious 'bird's eye' view and I've never understood quite why they were drawn this way. Then I came across the photo on the left in the Courtyard Antiques sold archive. The similarity is striking and rather pleasing.
Lincolnshire Windsor & Rush seated chairs, including a catalogue of the Lincolnshire Chairs exhibition held at Alford Manor April to October 2019. Text & pictures by William Sergeant & Julian Parker. Some chairs from other regions are covered either to distinguish them from Lincolnshire chairs or for their inherent beauty. Occasional posts on other subjects happen from time to time. William Sergeant's talks about the chairs may be found in the Useful Links
Saturday 11 January 2020
Gillows perspectives
The sketch on the right comes from Susan Stuart's article in the Journal of The Regional Furniture Society (2010) More about Gillows’ Windsor and Common Chairs captioned: "A high back Windsor chair painted green, ash with deal spindles. Made by Joseph Wilcock, December 1806. Westminister Archive Centre 344/ 99, fol. 1804".
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