49/2006

Collection

Books

Brief description

'Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste: and recreations for town folk in the study and imitation of nature', a book by Shirley Hibberd, published by Groombridge & Sons, London, 1856.

Title

Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste: and recreations for town folk in the study and imitation of nature

Object name

book

Object number

49/2006

Production person

Shirley Hibberd (author)

Production organisation

Groombridge and Sons (publisher)

Production date

1856 (published)

Production place

London (published)

Period

Victorian (1837-1901)

Material

paper
leather
gilding

Technique

embossed
gilded
printed

Physical description

Embossed and gilded green leather cover, with gilt edged pages.

Dimensions

Height: 18.7cm
Width: 13cm
Depth: 2.8cm

Website keywords

house plants and cut flowers

Label

Label text for 'What a room should be' case, Information Bay 5, Geffrye Museum, 2010:
‘Rustic Adornments for homes of Taste and recreations
for Town Folk, in the Study and Imitation of Nature’
by Shirley Hibberd, 1856
Rustic Adornments contained ideas for creating ‘living’ decorations in the home, from arrangements of flowers and plants to fern cases and aquatic ornaments such as fishtanks. This was a very different approach to that advocated by the generation of advice manuals which began to succeed it the following decade, and Hibberd’s ‘adornments’ must soon have begun to seem outdated.