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Design for a Birthday Card

Design
1960s-1970s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A paper design for a birthday card with a girl wearing a pink dress and a hat of pink flowers, on a grey background. The design pasted into a paper folder.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for a Birthday Card
Materials and techniques
Paint, pen and ink on paper
Brief description
Design for a birthday card by Marion Wilson for the Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1960s-1970s
Physical description
A paper design for a birthday card with a girl wearing a pink dress and a hat of pink flowers, on a grey background. The design pasted into a paper folder.
Dimensions
  • Torn edges height: 39.2cm
  • Torn edges width: 27.8cm
  • Folder height: 47.3cm
  • Folder width: 70.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • MARiON (Signature, in ink, bottom right)
  • Open up/ Design for 300 Birthday/ Please proof as soon as possible - as paint will CRACK if not put behind glass./ Please treat with great care as design has been torn & it is mended, & it is in extremely delicate condition (Handwritten in ball point pen on front of folder)
  • GF 4068/ MPC/ Marion/ Sheet 203 (Handwritten in pencil on reverse of folder)
Subjects depicted
Associated object
E.959-2003 (Reproduction)
Collection
Accession number
E.958-2003

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Record createdJune 23, 2004
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