John Dibblee Crace

This material is held atV&A Archive of Art and Design

  • Reference
    • GB 73 AAD/1992/3/9; AAD/2000/15/4 to AAD/2000/15/11; AAD/2001/6/4 to AAD/2001/6/5; AAD/2001/6/8
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1795-1932
  • Physical Description
    • 92 files

Scope and Content

Papers of or relating to John Dibblee Crace, including correspondence, receipts, photographs, travel notes, pamphlets, genealogical notes and notebooks. The pamphlets include: "The coloured decoration of architecture" (1900), "The proper aims and limits of the coloured decoration of architecture" (1988) [2 copies], "Nature and the study of decoration" (1877) [2 copies], "How to study coloured decoration from existing examples" (1874) [2 copies], "Household taste" (1882), "The coloured decoration of public and private buildings" (1881) [2 copies], "Colour decoration: its use in the expression of form and proportion" (1884) [2 copies], "The Decorative use of colour" (in Journal of the Society of Arts, 11 May 1888 [4 copies, some incomplete], reports of presentations to John Dibblee Crace by the Incorporated Institute of British Decorators (1908, 1917), "The fifty-second annual report of the Sheffield School of Art" "On the use of the Soulages collection of Italian art in modern art manufacture" (in Journal of the Society of Arts, 29 January 1858).

Administrative / Biographical History

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