Clock
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.A skilled etcher and lithographer, Williamson gained recognition for his expertly hand-colored photographs of decorative objects, particularly those housed in the vast collections of London’s South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). This eighteenth-century French porcelain and gilt-bronze clock was rumored to have belonged to Marie Antoinette.
Artwork Details
- Title: Clock
- Artist: J. I. Williamson (British)
- Date: ca. 1882
- Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative with applied color
- Dimensions: Image: 54.8 x 40.7 cm (21 9/16 x 16 in.)
Frame: 78.7 x 57.7 cm (31 x 22 11/16 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Curatorial Department: Photographs