MEACCI, F. {PIECE MOULDER AND FIGURE MAKER}

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/2683
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: MEACCI, F. {PIECE MOULDER AND FIGURE MAKER}
Date(s)	: 1887-1893
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Meacci | F | fl 1887-1893 | piece moulder and figure maker

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

F. Meacci was based at 53 Cale Street, Chelsea. He was a piece moulder and figure maker whose customers included Alfred Gilbert, celebrated sculptor of 'Eros' and other late Victorian sculptors including Edward Onslow Ford, George Cowell, Mary Grant and Thomas Essex. Records of his transactions with these sculptors can be found in this collection.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Ledger and financial accounts of F. Meacci, piece moulder and figure maker, 1887-1893, recording work done in casting, painting, bronzing, squeezing in clay, casting in gelatine, and transport of sculptural works.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One volume and thirty-two loose sheets of accounts.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gifted to the archive in 1989.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
July to October 2009