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Design for Wiletts and Sons

Design
1920s (made)
Artist/Maker
Willetts & Sons (Commissioned by)
The Roseland Studio (Artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

Drawing of a young woman wearing an extravagant dark fur coat with lighter fur trims at the collar and cuffs. The coat comes to just below the knee and the woman’s pleated skirt below is just visible. She also wears a cloche hat decorated with feathers. The design is marked ‘No 9’. On the reverse there is a pencil sketch of another fashion model.


Object details

Categories
Fashion
Labels & Packaging
Object type
Design
TitleDesign for Wiletts and Sons (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and pencil on cream card
Ink
Paper
Drawn
Brief description
A design drawing by the Roseland Studio for the packaging firm of Willetts and Sons, London, showing a young woman modelling a fur coat, 1920s
Physical description
Drawing of a young woman wearing an extravagant dark fur coat with lighter fur trims at the collar and cuffs. The coat comes to just below the knee and the woman’s pleated skirt below is just visible. She also wears a cloche hat decorated with feathers. The design is marked ‘No 9’. On the reverse there is a pencil sketch of another fashion model.
Dimensions
  • Height: 45.2cm
  • Width: 25.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • THE "ROSELAND" STUDIO. (Stamped in ink, bottom left)
  • No 9 (Handwritten in ink at the bottom of the design)
  • 494/ 7 1/2 Deep (Handwritten and underlined in pencil, bottom right)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs Pamela Joan Gordon in memory of her father, George Frederick Willetts (1893-1961)
Subjects depicted
Fashion
Woman
Coats
Hats
Fur
Shoes (Footwear)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3229-2004

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Record createdJuly 15, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O101592/design-for-wiletts-and-sons-design-willetts--sons/
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