Makers, Periods & Styles Library

A Globe – is a three-dimensional spherical scale model of the earth (terrestrial globe) or the sky (celestial globe). A three dimensional terrestrial globe is the only way of representing areas of the earth without significant distortions or inaccuracies of shape, relative sizes or directions. Most globes do...

The Grand Tour was an educational ‘rite of passage’ undertaken by wealthy young European men mainly from the British aristocracy, although later it became fashionable amongst other European elites and also with people of means from the USA. It flourished from about 1660 until the 1830s when the advent of steam...

Jean Louis Gregoire was a French sculptor (1840 – 1890 ). He was the son of a sculptor and trained under Salmson at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He was one of the first Associates of the Artistes Français and exhibited at the Salon from 1867 . He is known for classical subjects and some of […]

Gregory and Co. were known as exclusive interior decorators and furnishers. Established in Regent Street in 1861 they had moved to Bruton Street in Mayfair by the 1940s. They were listed as being manufacturers of ‘the first reputation’ who could be counted on to make the most ‘princely or capital examples in...

Leonard Lumsden Grimwade (c. 1863-1931), – was a pottery manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent in England. Leonard started as a dry salter with his Uncle in Ipswich but moved the Potteries as a modeller. He was joined by his brother, Sydney and around 1885 they formed the firm Grimwade Brothers. They specialised in...

The harp is a multi-stringed musical instrument where the strings are positioned perpendicularly to the sound board. The harp originated in Mesopotamia with the earliest harps and lyres dating back to 3500 BCE. Several harps have been found in royal tombs and burial pits in Ur. All harps have a neck, strings and...

By 1900 Harrison Brothers & Howson was one of the biggest cutlery firms in Sheffield. It started with Thomas Sansom, a silver plate worker at Norfolk Street, Sheffield, who registered his mark at the Sheffield assay office in 1808 and went on to form the firm of Thomas Sansom & Sons in partnership with his...

Harrods, the famous London department store was founded in 1824 by Charles Henry Harrod. His first store was listed as a draper, mercer and haberdasher with premises on Borough High Street. He went on to set up a grocery business located in Upper Whitecross Street (Clerkenwell) in 1832 and in 1834 he established a...