AN ARTS AND CRAFTS COPPER LANTERN

The Keswick School of Art and Industrial Design was set up by Canon Rawnsley, champion of the Lake District and founder of the National Trust in the 1890's with a view to developing the ideas of 'Truth and Nature'. The School prospered and developed a reputation for high quality copper and silver decorative metalwork in the late 19th and early 20th Century, probably when this lantern was made.