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Design

ca. 1920 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A print showing a woman wearing a suit with a long skirt and long jacket with a single button. She is wearing a hat with a feather, gloves and a long pendant, which she touches with her raised hand. The print has been folded many times and bears numerous pencil inscriptions.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Print on paper
Brief description
A proof print from the packaging firm of Willetts and Sons, London, showing a woman wearing a suit, about 1920, the original design was prepared by the Ruskin Studio
Physical description
A print showing a woman wearing a suit with a long skirt and long jacket with a single button. She is wearing a hat with a feather, gloves and a long pendant, which she touches with her raised hand. The print has been folded many times and bears numerous pencil inscriptions.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.2cm
  • Width: 19.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Half Price/ & Shape [?]/ Rosenbergs' (Handwritten in pencil, on the left of the figure)
  • 'No 3' (Printed in ink, to the right of the figure)
  • '31./ 30/ [?] Poof. [?] 27/ Wholesale Leppls [?]/ HARRIS.LTD/ Mr/ 6 [?] and dress' (Handwritten and partially underlined in pencil on the reverse)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs Pamela Joan Gordon in memory of her father, George Frederick Willetts (1893-1961)
Subjects depicted
Associated object
E.3237-2004 (Design)
Collection
Accession number
E.3204-2004

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Record createdJuly 15, 2004
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