File:A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Wellcome L0072181.jpg
Original file (5,302 × 3,964 pixels, file size: 3.08 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). | |||
---|---|---|---|
Title |
A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). |
||
Description |
A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177- Physical description 1 clock : wood with ebony veneer and gold leaf, brass and other metals ; clock and handle 47 x 26 x 18 cm. Lettering Leroux Charing Cross Credits Made by John Leroux of 8 Charing Cross Road probably sometime in the 1770s. Leroux was made an honorary freeman of the Clockmaker's Company of London in 1781. He was better known as a watchmaker than as a clockmaker and was an innovator of lever watches. This clock is a company piece, not made by Leroux personally but rather assembled by his company from components that were produced by a range of smaller firms which specialised in specific parts of clock mechanisms. This explains why Leroux's signature is engraved on an attached plaque rather than on the clockface itself Note When it was made in the eighteenth century the clock would have retailed at about fifty or sixty guineas. The handle on the top is purely for decorative purposes - if it had actually been used then it is highly unlikely that the clock would have survived, for the joints which attached the handle to the main body of a clock were notoriously unreliable. It would appear that the mock pendulum which should be positioned in the "hole" on the clockface is missing (information from David Thompson, Mediaeval and Later Antiquities Dept., British Museum, 9 August 1996) Cite as Wellcome Library no. 539062i Author, etc. Leroux, John, 1750-1805. Topic-LCSH Time. Genre/Technique Shelf clocks. Clocks and watches. Iconographic Collections |
||
Credit line |
|
||
References |
|
||
Source/Photographer |
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/db/43/f94a891542219bdf882533415845.jpg
|
||
Other versions |
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 16:11, 20 October 2014 | 5,302 × 3,964 (3.08 MB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | =={{int:filedesc}}== {{Artwork |artist = |author = |title = A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). |description = A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 1... |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Short title | L0072181 A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). |
---|---|
Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | L0072181 A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | L0072181 A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock).
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177- Physical description 1 clock : wood with ebony veneer and gold leaf, brass and other metals ; clock and handle 47 x 26 x 18 cm. Lettering Leroux Charing Cross Credits Made by John Leroux of 8 Charing Cross Road probably sometime in the 1770s. Leroux was made an honorary freeman of the Clockmaker's Company of London in 1781. He was better known as a watchmaker than as a clockmaker and was an innovator of lever watches. This clock is a company piece, not made by Leroux personally but rather assembled by his company from components that were produced by a range of smaller firms which specialised in specific parts of clock mechanisms. This explains why Leroux's signature is engraved on an attached plaque rather than on the clockface itself Note When it was made in the eighteenth century the clock would have retailed at about fifty or sixty guineas. The handle on the top is purely for decorative purposes - if it had actually been used then it is highly unlikely that the clock would have survived, for the joints which attached the handle to the main body of a clock were notoriously unreliable. It would appear that the mock pendulum which should be positioned in the "hole" on the clockface is missing (information from David Thompson, Mediaeval and Later Antiquities Dept., British Museum, 9 August 1996) Cite as Wellcome Library no. 539062i Author, etc. Leroux, John, 1750-1805. Topic-LCSH Time. Genre/Technique Shelf clocks. Clocks and watches. 177u A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177-. John Leroux Published: [177-] Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
IIM version | 2 |