Victorian Architecture ............... Furniture
Styles............... Illustrated
FURNITURE Glossary
Furniture - Victorian
1840-1900
Portrait
of Queen Victoria
Spiral-twist Victorian novelty armchair -
Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
Table of Contents:
NOTE: There is no universal agreement about styles or dates.
DefinitionGeneral term for English and American furniture, 1840-1900.
"Victorian" refers to the reign of England's Queen Victoria, 1837-1901. More generally, it refers to the the second half of the nineteenth century. In the U.S., some historians use the term to describe the period after the Civil War until World war I in 1914.
See Victorian furniture examples -Private collection, Orchard Park, NY
England - Early Victorian 1830-1850
- Late Sheraton-Empire-Regency
- End of classicism
- Neo-Gothic
- Eastlake
- Morris
England -Mid-Victorian 1850-1880
- French revivals of Louis Quatorze and Louis Seize, better or worse copying down to outright bastardization of ornamental themes
- Free choice- motif selection from the Italian and French Renaissance, as used contemporaneously in the France of Louis-Philippe and the Second Empire
- Sporadic waves of nostalgia for Elizabethan and Jacobean
- Much copying of Georgian and pre-Georgian
England -Late Victorian 1880-1905
- Neo-Renaissance
- Some revivals of English 17th-century work
- Empire
- Eastlake
- Morris
American Victorian / 19th-Century Revival styles 1840-1880
Architecture styles include:
- 1820-1860 Gothic Revival
- 1850-1885 Italianate
- 1860-1890 Second Empire
- 1860-1890 Stick (included archtitectural Eastlake elements)
- 1870-1900 Richardsonian Romanesque
- 1870-1920 Colonial Revival
- 1880-1900 Shingle
- 1880-1910 Queen Anne (included archtitectural Eastlake elements)
FURNITURE styles include:
- 1840-1850 Transitional Early Victorian
- 1840-1880 Gothic Revival
- 1840-1865 Spool-turned
- 1840-1870 Rococo Revival
- 1850-1880 Renaissance Revival
- 1855-1875 Turkish
- 1870-1890 Eastlake
- 1870-1900 Aesthetic Movement
- 1880-1890 Golden Oak
- 1890-1900 Second Renaissance Revival
- 1890-1900 Japanese (bamboo: real and imitated)
- 1880-1930 Colonial Revival
See also: The Collectors Weekly: "Victorian" Illustrations with ebay links
Photos and their arrangement © 2004 Chuck LaChiusa
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