Materials & Techniques: compo / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances

1. British, Louis XIV style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd quarter of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, regilded over original gilding and sanded frieze
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

2. French, Louis XV frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, regilded and restored over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 37 1/4 × 35 1/2 × 4 inches (94.6 × 90.2 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

3. British, Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 96 × 68 inches (243.8 × 172.7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

4. British Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 18th to early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, later oil gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 44 × 34 × 4 1/2 inches (111.8 × 86.4 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

5. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 18th century to early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, regilded over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 29 × 41 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (73.7 × 105.4 × 5.7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

6. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 18th century to early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

7. British or American (?), Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 18th century to early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

8. British, Neoclassical, 'Morland' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 18th century to early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, regilded over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

9. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

10. British, Louis XV Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, matt and burnished water gilding and oil gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

11. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil gilt
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

12. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

13. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

14. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

15. British, Louis XV Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, matt and burnished water gilding and oil gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

16. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

17. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil and water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

18. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

19. British Louis XIV Revival style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil gilt
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

20. British 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil and water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

21. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, restored oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

22. British Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, later gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 34 × 28 × 2 1/2 inches (86.4 × 71.1 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

23. British, 'Neo-Louis' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, oil and water gilt and patinated and painted
Dimensions:: Frame: 46 × 55 1/2 inches (116.8 × 141 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

24. British, Neoclassical Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, later oil gilding over original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 37 × 32 × 2 7/8 inches (94 × 81.3 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

25. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, original water gilding; later patination
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

26. British, Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding, partial bronze overpainting
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

27. British, Louis XV Revival style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 89 × 67 × 4 inches (226.1 × 170.2 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

28. British, Régence Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil gilding and sanded frieze
Dimensions:: Frame: 51 × 39 1/2 × 3 5/8 inches (129.5 × 100.3 × 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

29. British Regency frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, partially regilded over original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

30. British, Victorian frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 13 × 14 × 2 3/4 inches (33 × 35.6 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

31. British, Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, partially regilded over original oil and water gilding and sanded frieze
Dimensions:: Frame: 66 × 88 inches (167.6 × 223.5 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

32. British, Victorian diapered frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd and 3rd quarters of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, later oil gilding and over original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

33. British, Neoclassical Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: mid-19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, canvas, later gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 × 24 1/2 × 2 inches (43.2 × 62.2 × 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

34. British, Victorian frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: mid-19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, partially regilded over original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 33 × 45 × 2 1/2 inches (83.8 × 114.3 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

35. British, Victorian diapered frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: mid-19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding; inlay re-gilt
Dimensions:: Frame: 31 × 37 1/4 inches (78.7 × 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

36. British, Victorian Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: mid-19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, painted bronze over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

37. British Victorian Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: W. Boswell, active 19th–20th century
Date:: mid-19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original gilding on frame; inlay regilded
Dimensions:: Frame: 30 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (77.5 × 77.5 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

38. British (?) oval architrave moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oak and compo, original oil gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

39. British or Irish, Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, original water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

40. French (?) Louis XIV Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood compo, original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

41. British, Louis XVI Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood, compo, oak frieze; canvas, original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

42. British, Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

43. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil and water gilt
Dimensions:: Frame: 58 × 84 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (147.3 × 214.6 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

44. British, Louis XIII style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, bronze leaf
Dimensions:: Frame: 16 1/2 × 29 inches (41.9 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

45. British, Victorian frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding, partially regilded
Dimensions:: Frame: 20 × 40 × 3 inches (50.8 × 101.6 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

46. British Neoclassical Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

47. British, Victorian 'Salon' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, partially regilded over original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

48. British Victorian 'Salon' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, frame regilded and painted bronze over original gilding; inlay original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

49. British artist's frame

Creator:: probably Foord & Dickinson, 1859–1899
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original water gilding and inscription
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

50. British artist's frame

Creator:: probably Foord & Dickinson, 1859–1899
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original water gilding and inscription
Dimensions:: Frame: 29 1/8 × 40 1/4 × 2 3/8 inches (74 × 102.2 × 6 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

51. British, Artist's frame

Creator:: probably Joseph Green Jr., 1840–1870
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo with oak mount, outer frame later oil gilding over original; inner frame original oil gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 22 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (57.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

52. British, Victorian 'Nazarene' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 26 1/8 × 35 × 2 7/8 inches (66.4 × 88.9 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

53. British, Neoclassical Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original matt and burnished water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

54. British artist's frame: Pre-Raphaelite

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 3rd quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

55. British Neoclassical Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 2nd half of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, gilt
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

56. British, 'Watts' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil, water gilding and sanded frieze
Dimensions:: Frame: 106 × 71 inches (269.2 × 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

57. British, Artist's frame

Creator:: Perhaps Foord & Dickinson, 1859–1899
Date:: last third of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 13 1/2 × 19 × 1 5/8 inches (34.3 × 48.3 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

58. British, Artist's frame

Creator:: Perhaps Foord & Dickinson, 1859–1899
Date:: last third of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

59. British, Artist's frame

Creator:: Foord & Dickinson, 1859–1899
Date:: last third of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original matt and burnished water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

60. British, Artist's frame

Creator:: Foord & Dickinson, 1859–1899
Date:: last third of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original oil gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

61. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

62. British (?), Baroque style moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

63. British (?), Baroque style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo; canvas, water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

64. British, Louis XIV style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil and water gilt and patinated
Dimensions:: Frame: 33 1/4 × 27 × 2 1/2 inches (84.5 × 68.6 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

65. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

66. British, Pseudo-Rococo frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oil and water gilt
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

67. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

68. Continental Europe, Régence style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

69. British, 'Carlo Maratta' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

70. British, 'Watts' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo with oak frieze, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 29 3/4 × 35 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (75.6 × 90.8 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

71. Britisih Rococo Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original matt and burnished water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

72. British, Baroque style moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Carved wood and compo, water gilt and patinated
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

73. British 'Lely' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th (?) century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, bronze leaf
Dimensions:: Frame: 31 1/2 × 36 1/2 inches (80 × 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

74. British, 'Watts' style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, painted bronze over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

75. British, Victorian/Edwardian moulding style frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, patinated bronze, white painted inlay
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

76. British, canted architrave moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: late 19th century to early 20th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, regilded over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 27 1/4 × 32 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (69.2 × 82.2 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

77. British, Neoclassical Revival frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 4th quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, original gilding and sanded cavetto
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

78. British, Artist's frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: 4th quarter of 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Wood and compo, oak frieze, original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 50 1/2 × 42 1/2 × 3 inches (128.3 × 108 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art