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- Matthias Lock
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Matthias Lock
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primary name: Lock, Matthias
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other name: Lock, Matthew
- Details
- individual; printmaker; British; Male
- Other dates
- 1740-1769 (fl. c.)
- Address
- Nottingham Court, Castle Street, Long Acre (1746)
near the Swan, in Tottenham Court Road, London (1752)
- Biography
- Furniture carver; rococo designer, engraver and publisher. Apprenticed 1724. Published following sets of ornamental prints:
1744 Six sconces
1746 Six tables
c.1746 A book of shields
1752 A new book of ornaments (with H.Copland)
plus some later re-issues of older plates under new titles. The following two sets were issued by his son of the same name:
1769 A new book of foliage
1769 A new book of pier frames
(nb many plates reprinted 1768-9 by Robert Sayer)
The V&A holds a scrapbook of his works, see 2848(1-168)
Trade card in Anderdon 61, no.16
Three trade cards in Heal Collection. Heal,32.36 and Heal,59.103 advertise "M. Lock, Carver, in Tottenham Court Road." Heal's annotations on mounts: "Matthias Lock is referred to at some length by R. Edwards and M. Jourdain in 'Georgian Cabinet Makers' and is described as 'the pioneer in England of the rocaille.' His address in 1746 is given by these authors as 'Nottingham Court, Castle Street in Long Acre' in 1746 [in contradiction to this card of his dated the same year] and in 1752 as 'Near ye Swan, Tottenham Court Rd.' (see another card in A.H. collection also dated 1746). Lock & his collaborator H. Copland worked for Chippendale as carvers & designers. The first edition of 'A New Drawing Book of Ornaments' by M. Lock was published in 1740. The 'Dictionary of English Furniture' gives his dates as 1740-1765 & his address as in Queen St., Seven Dials. London Directories 1790-'94 give a Matthias Lock at No.19, Clerkenwell Green. Compare also card in A.H. collection of M. Lock in Nottingham Court, Castle Street, Long Acre. A duplicate copy of this card is filed under engravers." Heal,32.37 advertises "M. Lock in Nottingham Court, Castle Street, Long Acre" and was engraved in 1746. Heal's annotations on mount are identical to those of Heal,32.36.
- Bibliography
- Peter Ward-Jackson, 'English furniture designs of the XVIIIc', 1959 pp.38ff
M.Heckscher, in 'Furniture History' XV 1979 (catalogue)
