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DOI Artikel:
Muthesius, Stefan: Old English, altdeutsch: some nineteenth-century appropriations of a "homely" past
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STEFAN MUTHESIUS

6. J. Nash, Crewe Hall, Cheshire, from The Mansions of En gland in the Olden Time, London, 1839-1849

amounted to the use of terms Tudor and Elizabethan17. Much rarer was the concern for individual items of
furnishing that was neither Gothic nor Classical. Occasionally journals/pattern books from about 1810, such
as Ackermann18, include some strange looking items of furniture. The first collections of plates claimed as
a history of furniture appeared in the 1830s, notably by Henry Shaw, who also illustrated wali élévations and
larger interior détails, mostly of wood, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to Shaw these
were "ruder times" and work could be "coarse" (111. 7)19. In 1841 Elizabethan furniture was cautiously
advocated, though "commodiousness" still rested with modern furniture20.

More important in this context were the writings of Pugin. Although he always strictly adhered to
Gothic, this did stretch to Tudor, and thus well into the sixteenth century as far as the interior was concerned.
Pugin was particularly influential in demanding a kind of domestic Gothic that was différent from the more
elaborate, more pinnacled Gothic for religious architecture. Pugin here opted for wooden panels fitted to
almost the whole height of the walls, a favorite motif of most "Old English" domestic interiors21.

By far the most comprehensive, most clearly written and usefully illustrated works on ail aspects of
domestic architecture, which was not a work of history, came from an American architect and author, Andrew
Jackson Downing, who had based himself on Loudon, Joseph Nash, as well as on Pugin. Amongst his

17 J.C. Loudon, An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture..., London 1833 (2nd ed. 1842).

18 R. Ackermann (éd.), The Repository of Arts, Literaturę, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics. London
1809-1828.

19 H. S h a w, Détails of Elizabethan Architecture, London 1834, p. 38.

20 T.F. H u n t, Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Adapted to Modern Habitations, London 1841, p. 106; cf. S. J e г v i s.
Cottage, Farm and Villa Furniture, "Burlington Magazine", December 1975, pp. 848-859: F. С о 1 1 a r d. Regency Furniture.
Woodbridge 1985.

21 A.W.N. Pugin, The True Principles of Pointe d or Christian Architecture, London 1841.
 
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