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TATHAM (CHARLES HEATHCOTE)
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FINELY BOUND COPY, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE DEDICATEE, ELIZABETH, MARCHIONESS OF STAFFORD, COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND. Charles Tatham, a proponent of neo-classical silver, presented designs produced for aristocratic clients such as the Lords Spencer and Spencer and Earl Camden in Designs for Ornamental Plate, "remembered particularly now for Tatham's trenchant condemnation of the lightweight Adam-style silver as against 'Roman Massiveness... to the utter exclusion of all good ornament'" (Philippa Glanville, Silver in England, 1987).
Provenance: Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford, monogram bookplate; George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), armorial stamp on upper cover; "Bought at the sale of the Stafford House Library for £1-2-6. 31 October 1913", pencil note on front free endpaper. For the Sutherland family Tatham completed architectural commissions at Trentham Park and Cleveland House in London, and when towards the end of his life he fell on hard times the Duchess of Sutherland obtained for him the place of Master of Holy Trinity, Greenwich.





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