‘Pierced and Perforated Carving, as Fine as the Best Cathedral Screen Work’: Antiquarianism and Faking Tudor Furniture in the 1840s

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Fig. 1. George Shaw, the interior of St Anne’s facing the altar, Carlecotes, Penistone, 1856–57

© Peter N. Lindfield

Fig. 2. Chimney Pieces at the Pryor’s Bank, Fulham, Plate IV from The Gentleman’s Magazine, January 1842

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Fig. 3. George Shaw, title page of Antiquarian Scraps, c. 1833. M175/2/3

Courtesy of Oldham Local Studies and Archives

Fig. 4. George Shaw, heraldic panelling on the Trinity Chapel screen, St Chad’s, Rochdale, 1843

© Peter N. Lindfield

Fig. 5. View of the Hall at St Chad’s, Uppermill, as seen in 1920. From Allen Mellor & Co., ‘St. Chad’s,’ Uppermill, Saddleworth, Yorks (Oldham 1920)

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Fig. 6. George Shaw, Interior of Tabley Old Hall. M175/2/3, 49

Courtesy of Oldham Local Studies and Archives

Fig. 7. George Shaw, an Elizabethan bed. M175/2/3, 139

Courtesy of Oldham Local Studies and Archives

Fig. 8. George Shaw, the Radcliffe bed seen at St Chad’s, Uppermill, in 1920. From Allen Mellor & Co., ‘St. Chad’s,’ Uppermill, Saddleworth, Yorks (Oldham 1920)

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Fig. 9. The Thomas Stanley bed as seen in 1913. From Messrs C. W. Provis and Sons, The Manor House, Rochdale (Immediately Opposite the Town Hall) (Manchester 1913), opp. 17

Courtesy of Touchstones, Rochdale

Fig. 10. George Shaw, drawing of the Molyneux bed at Lovley Hall. M175/2/5, 11

Courtesy of Oldham Local Studies and Archives

Fig. 11. The ‘Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Marriage Bed’

Courtesy of The Langley Collection, Hexham

Fig. 12. George Shaw, The duke of Northumberland ‘Paradise Bed’, 1847

Courtesy of Christie’s

Fig. 13. Views of the interior of Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire, showing the N.M. 1596 settle on the house’s principal staircase landing, 1892

Source: Historic England Archive

Fig. 14. Comparison of the cockatrices on the N.M. 1596 settle at Rolleston Hall, 1892, and George Shaw’s cockatrices on the staircase at St Chad’s, Uppermill

Source: Historic England Archive and © Peter N. Lindfield

Fig. 15. George Shaw, detail of the central panel of the duke of Northumberland’s ‘Paradise Bed’ headboard, 1847, and the central panel of the ‘Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Marriage Bed’

Courtesy of Christie’s and The Langley Collection, Hexham

Fig. 16. View of the entrance hall of Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire, showing the hall cupboard, 1892

Source: Historic England Archive

Fig. 17. George Shaw, duke of Northumberland’s hall cupboard, 1847

© Peter N. Lindfield

Fig. 18. View of the interior of Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire, showing the Oak Bedroom, 1892

Source: Historic England Archive

Fig. 19. George Shaw, bed in Bedroom over Hall at St Chad’s, Uppermill, in 1920. From Allen Mellor & Co., ‘St. Chad’s,’ Uppermill, Saddleworth, Yorks (Oldham 1920)

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Fig. 20. George Shaw, the Richard Shuttleworth bed at Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, c. 1840s

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Fig. 21. 1682 bedstead from Shaw and Meyrick, Specimens of Ancient Furniture (London 1836), pl. XXXIX

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Fig. 22. View of the interior of Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire, showing the Oak Bedroom, 1892

Source: Historic England Archive