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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics

Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British
1809–28
Not on view
40 volume set, each volume contains six monthly issues. Illustrations devoted to series that include furniture, ladies' fashion, views of London emporiums, views of English country houses (exteriors), foreign views of cities and the alps, game hunting, samples of British made textiles, and embroidery patterns. Each volume approximately 380 pages, followed by annoucements of dividends and bankrupcies, meteorolgical charts, sometimes by advertisements, extra insertions, and indexes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics
  • Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
  • Date: 1809–28
  • Medium: Illustrations: etching, engraving, aquatint, woodcut, hand-coloring, fabric samples
  • Dimensions: each vol. approx.: 9 7/16 × 6 × 1 3/4 in. (24 × 15.3 × 4.5 cm)
  • Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture, Periodicals
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942
  • Object Number: 42.74.2(1-40)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

More Artwork

More Artwork
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1, Rudolph Ackermann, London British, Illustrations: hand-colored etching, woodcut, and textile samples
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 1
Multiple artists/makers
January–June 1809
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, Richard Holden British, Steel, gold, leather, textile, British, London; buff coat, European
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Armorer Armor attributed to Richard Holden
Armorer Helmet cheek pieces and metal plates on shoulder straps made by Daniel Tachaux
ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2, Rudolph Ackermann, London British, Illustrations: hand-colored etching, engraving, woodcut, and textile samples
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2
Multiple artists/makers
July–December 1809
The Devil's Darling: Text, Rudolph Ackermann, London British, Letterpress
The Devil's Darling: Text
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London
Printer Harrison & Leigh Printers
March 12, 1814
The grammar of ornament, Owen Jones British, Chromolithography
The grammar of ornament
Author Owen Jones
Illustrator Francis Bedford
Publisher Day & Son, Ltd., London
1856

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