Silk Designs of Joseph Dandridge [1]Artist ProfileMarie-Therese Wisdniowski

Preamble
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Silk Designs of the 18th Century
Woven Textile Designs In Britain (1750 to 1763)
Woven Textile Designs in Britain (1764 to 1789)
Woven Textile Designs in Britain (1790 to 1825)
19th Century Silk Shawls from Spitalfields
Silk Designs of Joseph Dandridge
Silk Designs of James Leman

Silk Designs of Joseph Dandridge [1]
A silk designer by profession, Joseph Dandridge was also a distinguished botanist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was decribed by a former pupil as 'a person of unbounded curiosity and application in his research into the works of nature. He was born in Buckinghamshire in 1665, the son of a barber-surgeon, and came to London as an apprentice in 1679. The silk designs that can be attributed to him, commissioned by James Leman, date from between 1717 and 1722, but Malachy Postlethwayt in the "The Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (1757) described him as a silk designer for 'near forty years.' He was said to have been particularly good at designing damasks, while the patterns he prepared for Leman were for the richest silks, to be executed chiefly in gold and silver thread. He may have continued as a silk designer into the 1730s, when he has his pupil John Vansommer, who would become a distinguished designer in his turn. Dandridge died in 1746.

Year: 1718.

Year: ca. 1718.

Year: 1718.

Overview.
Year: 1720.

Detail of above.

Year: ca. 1734.

Reference:
[1] Ed. C. Brown, Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century, C. Browne, Thames and Huson, London (1996).