Rowney Georgian Pastels

I can't upload the photo on this post so I've uploaded it here http://rowneygeorgianpastels.weebly.com/
These are a tin/box of Rowney Georgian Pastels I've recently purchased. I can't find anything out about the pastels online only facts about the company that made them. Any help would be greatly appreciated (age, value etc)

 

Hello JDE, welcome to the forum.
Here is some info on posting pictures:
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Sorry, can't help you with the pastels, but someone else will.

 

I've tried to resize it but it won't work for some reason. Thank you for the info though!

 

Welcome to the forums!

Your picture is too big both weight-wise and dimensional-wise. It needed to be cropped and resized before trying to upload into a message. This is a common error done by just about all new forum members. I have taken the liberty of editing, cropping and resizing, your picture for it to appear in this thread. Very few people will take the time to click a link to see a pic. Also most of leery of clicking any new links that they do not know.

Originally your picture was in .PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format, which is a notorious big format. I have changed your pic to a .JPG format.

Your pic was:
Weight-wise: 1.72 MB = 1,766 KB = 1,808,273 bytes
Dimensional-wise: 1024px width X 768px height

Now pic is:
Weight-wise: 25 KB = 25,016 bytes
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--- Susan

 

1950s, possibly into the early 60s. The address is a part clue: it's using a short postcode of just W1. Long ones didn't come in till the late 60s and even then, weren't always used on packaging and such. Rowney moved out to the country in '69. That colour and style of box is very 50s.

There was a set sold on Ebay in 2013 for thirteen quid. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171176934213

I'd have thought five to ten and would have bought them to give to an artist friend.

 

Thank you very much! I wasn't sure how to do it

 

Brilliant, thank you!

 

You're very welcome.

 

And here I thought I'd be looking at 18th C art.

 

You are certainly welcome!

 

I agree with OBB, my first thought was 1950s. I'd expect the contents to be intact for it to have any value.

 

Yes, it does need its contents.

Georgian pastels: when these were made, it was the common thinnking that the colours used in Georgian houses were pale and rather demure. It took work by building archaeologists and research by people like English Heritage in the 1990s to establish that this wasn't actually the case. Paint chips have shown that they loved some pretty vicious colours.

And on that, I love the fact that it's now known that Gothic cathedrals were madly polychrome painted. London had a light show a year or two back which involved illuminating buildings as they were meant to be seen. I saw the Guildhall: it was astonishing.

 

The Victorian architects knew what they were doing when they used coloured bricks and tiles. These just need washing off to spruce them up.

Farrow and Ball persist with the wahed out look. It's what everyone expects.

 

af, I remember my Pa taking me down to St Paul's just after the cathedral was cleaned in the 1960s. The stone was the most wonderful pink, glowing in the sun. Stone and tile, indeed the best.

 

To see polychrome maintained, take a look at Ste. Chapelle in Paris:

Ste. Chapelle

 

Me too

 

The artist I had in mind was George Romney, thoroughly Georgian (1734-1802), who did occasionally work in pastels. A very fashionable portraitist in his day.

http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/ROMNEYg.pdf

 

The contents are there and haven't been used.