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For the most part Ackermann's Repository depicted landmarks and places of notice from the exterior; however on occasion an interior view was shown in its issues. If you've ever wondered what the saloon for the private boxes at Covent Garden Theater looked like in 1810 or what Polito's 1812 Royal Menagerie was like; here's your chance to see how Ackermann's Repository depicted them to an inquiring Regency public. Mr Blade's Showroom of Ornamental Glass Here is the accompanying article from Ackermann's Repository Here are the other interior views as shown by Ackermann's Repository 1810 - British Museum - New Gallery 1810 - Covent Garden Theater Saloon to Private Boxes 1810 - Royal Academy - Somerset House 1811 - Auction Mart Coffee Room 1811 - Carlton House Conservatory 1811 - Grand Salon at Auction Mart 1811 - Whitehall Chapel 1812 - Carlton House Great Staircase2 1812 - Polito's Royal Menagerie Exeter 1813 - Ackermann's Library 1813 - Gothic Bed Chamber - Bed Room 1813 - Gothic Conservatory 1813 - Gothic Hall 1813 - Gothic Library 1813 - Gothic Staircase 1813 - Library design 1816 - Mr Ross' Perfumery Room 1820 - The Royal Vault St George's Chapel Windsor 1821 - Westminster Abbey for Coronation 1823 - Mr Blade's Showroom - Ludgate Hill Please join me again next time when we have a look at Ackermann's Repository series on London Churches. Thanks for visiting me here at EKDuncan.blogspot.com If you have enjoyed seeing these images from Ackermann's Repository and would like the opportunity to see and read an original for yourself they are are available on line at www.archive.org Click HERE then choose the volume you are interested in. You can then see and read them online or download them to your computer for future reference. Enjoy!

Ackermann's Repository would publish an article on occasion regarding one of the more popular churches in the London area. This brief series could be found interspersed in issues from 1810 - 1815. Each rendition of the major churches was accompanied by a detailed article giving a history or the building and a variety of statistical information. 1814 - St Paul's Cathedral - Ackermann's Repository This was the accompanying article in Ackermann's Repository for St Paul's The wonder of great churches is that they usually stand the test of time; therefore many of these structures survive to this day and can currently be seen much as they were in Regency times. More Regency Era Churches of London 1810 - Westminster Abbey 1812 - St Dunstan's Church - Fleet Street 1812 - St James Chapel - Tottenham Court Rd 1814 - St Clement Danes - Westminster 1814 - St Leonard - Shoreditch 1814 - St Paul's Cathedral 1814 - St Stephen's Church - Walbrook 1815 - St Martin's (In-the -Fields) 1815 - Christ Church - Spitalfields 1815 - St John's Church - Westminster 1815 - St Stephen's Chapel & Speaker's House Please join me again next time when we tour the well known Regency streets of London as shown by Ackermann's Repository. Thanks for visiting me here at EKDuncan.blogspot.com If you have enjoyed seeing these images from Ackermann's Repository and would like the opportunity to see and read an original for yourself they are are available on line at www.archive.org Click HERE then choose the volume you are interested in. You can then see and read them online or download them to your computer for future reference. Enjoy!

I love to create digital projects that use a vintage looking curtain to create a "staged" effect; and wasn't I especially thrilled to discover that Ackermann's Repository had a variety of Curtain and Draped Windows for me to play with. One of the Regular features in the 1809-1828 publications of Ackermann's Repository were the Furniture Plates. These colorful images appeared in nearly every issue and several included some sort of Window Dressing. This lets me know that window treatments played a significant role in room decor during the regency for The Repository to include them as part of the furniture plate articles. 1816 Ackermann's Repository Furniture Plate showing Curtained Windows - Frame by sparklingwater.deviantart.com Many of the Curtain images from Ackermann's can be used to create fun backdrops to a digital scene or with a bit of time, effort and a good program like Photoshop the curtain can be extracted to become a digital element on its own. My previous post Curtains Set the Stage is one example of this. ***************** For this post I wanted to show the actual Ackermann Repository Furniture Plates for Curtains that were considered en Mode for the period. It appears that Curtains played a more significant role in home decor some years more than others. From 1809 - 1818, one to three furniture plate a year was devoted to the curtain but then in 1819 & 1820 there were six furniture plates devoted to curtains in each of those years. Unfortunately, they practically disappeared after that with only one appearing in 1824 and two Gothic ones in 1826. Ah - the fickleness of fashion. So here they are for you viewing pleasure Ackermann's Repository "Curtain" - Furniture Plates 1809 Ackermann's Repository "Curtain" Furniture Plate 19 I've already had a bit of fun creating digital art using this image. I loved the leopard spots on these swagging draperies. I used an EKDuncan adapted version of this swag to frame my Regency Garden Party with a Roaring Rogue post I also showed how this could be used as a background for creating digital art by adding in one of the 1812 fashion ladies. Click HERE or scroll to the bottom of the post to see the example. This is the accompanying Ackermann's Article for the above 1809 curtain. I love the way they wrote in the Regency time and just wanted to share a bit of what the articles were like that accompanied the pretty artwork. 1809 - French Curtain Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository I used this image to create a whole collection of "Stage Curtains" and shared it in my previous post "Curtains Set the Stage" (Larger versions of my EKDuncan adaptations of this curtain can be downloaded from my eveyd.deviantart.com account) 1810 - Double Curtain - Furniture Plate in Ackermann's Repository 1811 - French Window Curtain Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1811 - French Drapery Window Curtains Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1812 - French Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1812 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1813 - French Window Curtains from Ackermann's Repository 1814 Window Curtains - Furniture Plate from Ackermann's Repository 1815 - Library Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1815 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1815 - Boudoir Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1816 - Drawing Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1816 - Dining Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1816 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1817 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1818 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1819 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1819 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1819 - Dining Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository I used this lovely swag in one of my EKDuncan digital creations HERE 1819 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1819 - Library Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1819 - Three Drapery Designs by Mr Stafford of Bath - Ackermann's Repository 1820 - Draperies of Circular Windows - Ackermann's Repository 1820 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1820 - Drawing Room Window Curtain from Ackermann's Repository 1820 - Three Drapery Design Ideas for Small Apartments - Ackermann's Repository 1820 - Draperies for Half - Sexagon Bow Window - Ackermann's Repository 1820 - Window Drapery with Cornice - Ackermann's Repository 1824 - Alcove Window Curtains - Ackermann's Repository 1826 - Gothic Window and Curtain - Ackermann's Repository 1826 - Gothic Window Curtains with Cornice - Ackermann's Repository Here are a few Furniture Plates that are Full Room Decor with Curtains 1816 - Grecian Style Furniture and Curtains - Ackermann's Repository 1816 - Dining Room with Window Treatment - Ackermann's Repository I used this to create and expanded room setting on my other blog Create a Room - Regency Era Image - Ackermann's Repository 1816 - Saloon - Ackermann's Repository 1822 - Furniture Plate that has Drapes in it - Ackermann's Repository 1827 - Gothic Furniture plate with Curtains in the background I just love all these images! They are beautiful to look at and so much fun to play with if you like to create digitally like I do. I've altered several of my favorites and they can be downloaded from my deviantART account by going HERE In the next few posts I'll be sharing some more of my EKDuncan versions of some of these curtains, just because I love to play and create with them. Then I'll move on to more Ackermann Repository images of Furniture of the Regency. Till next time... Thanks for visiting with me at EKDuncan.blogspot.com Here are some links to my Regency Digital Art Creations using some of the curtains from above. Waiting for Midnight Beautiful Day Gothic View Curtain View Regency Beauties Regency Ghost Scene Garden Party with a Roaring Rogue Regency Ladies of Fashion ************* If you have enjoyed seeing these images from Ackermann's Repository and would like the opportunity to see and read an original for yourself they are are available on line at www.archive.org Click HERE then choose the volume you are interested in. You can then see and read them online or download them to your computer for future reference. Enjoy!

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One of my favorite items found in the pages of Ackermann's Repository are the curtains. (Ackermann's Repository - was a British publications that came out monthly from 1809-1828) I have a thing about vintage paper curtains, like the kind you would find in Victorian Toy Theaters also known as Paper Theaters or Model Theaters. They just make the perfect frame to stage a digital scene and I have so much fun creating digital scenes in Photoshop; especially using images from Ackermann's Repository. (click HERE to see an earlier post I did about Toy Theaters) As luck would have it there were a large assortment of furniture plates from 1809 - 1828 in Ackermann's Repository that can be manipulated to give me a full stage curtain as seen in the below scene. My latest digital creation using Ackermann Repository images Here I created a fun digital scene using a variety of Ackermann Repository images including my beloved ladies of fashion and a great curtain from 1809. I'll start by posting the items I used to create this scene and then I'll show you how the curtain was created and a rainbow of colors I've turned into for the grins and giggles of it. Items I used to create "Regency Beauties" I digitally cleaned up and removed the backgrounds from three Ackermann Repository Fashion Plates to create these lovely png images. I used this beautiful interior scene as my backdrop 1813 - Gothic Conservatory - Ackermann's Repository And I created this beautiful curtain by altering an 1809 Furniture Plate from Ackermann's A larger image of this and other digital curtains can be obtained from my deviantART account The finishing gold frame can be found on a previous post by clicking HERE (It's part of my digital scrapbooking collection - "Old World Charm" series ********************* now for The Curtain So believe it or not the above pink curtain was created by starting with this 1809 Ackermann Repository image of a French Curtain. The original 1809 Ackermann's Curtain I liked this curtain a lot; however I wanted something a bit larger that would cover a whole stage; so I duplicated the image, flipped it in reverse. 1809 French Curtain - Expanded via the magic of Photoshop The Expanded curtain gave me another great look; however to work as a stage curtain I needed to open it up a bit. I removed the bench and middle drop from the swag to get my final outline. This is what the original curtains looked like after removing the seat and middle drop Once I had my final image, I played around and see what color combinations I could create for the grins and giggles of it. I liked them so much that I've posted them to my deviantART account at http://eveyd.deviantart.com Here are a few of fun color combinations I created using this one 1809 Regency curtain image. Enjoy! Pink Chocolate color version Olive color version Buttercup color version Beige and Sage color version These are just a few of the color combinations I came up with. More of them can be found on my deviantArt account at http://eveyd.deviantart.com/gallery/33521372/Regency-Curtains-Ackermann-s-Repository I hope you get a chance to check them out. I just can't resist playing with all the great Ackermann images; especially the curtains. I'll be posting more Ackermann Repository curtains soon - both actual images from the magazines and then my artistically rendered versions for creating fun digital scenes. So keep checking back. To see more Ackermann's Repository Curtain Images click HERE