Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940

The Fitzwilliam Museum holds stunning examples of jewellery and metalwork from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This exceptional period of design covers the neo-Gothic and historicist designs of the 1850s and 1860s, the ground-breaking work of British Arts & Crafts designers, sinuous curves influenced by the European Art Nouveau movement and the structural modernity of the 1930s.

Arranged chronologically by designer - Alessandro Castellani, John Brogden, William Burges, Henry Wilson, C.R. Ashbee and Omar Ramsden to name some - this beautifully illustrated volume reproduces over 50 of the Museum's most important pieces from this highly popular and fruitful period, many previously unpublished.

About the Author

Helen Ritchie is a Research Assistant in the Department of Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where she is responsible for researching, interpreting and curating the Museum's modern Applied Arts. After studying at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and the University of the Arts London, Helen worked with applied arts at the Royal Collection Trust, Christie's, Harrogate Museums, and the British Museum. She is the author of A Passionate Collector: Mrs Hull Grundy and Jewellery from the Harrogate Collection (2014).