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Design for Wiletts and Sons

Design
1920s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing in pen and ink of a young woman wearing a sleeveless evening dress with a dropped waist. The hem comes to below the knee and is trimmed with ostrich feathers. The dress features an integral scarf which is trimmed with the same feathers and hangs down the woman’s back to waist level. She is touching her pearl necklace. The design is marked ‘No 12.’


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for Wiletts and Sons (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and pencil on cream card
Brief description
A design drawing by the Roseland Studio for the packaging firm of Willetts and Sons, London, showing a young woman in an evening dress, 1920s
Physical description
Drawing in pen and ink of a young woman wearing a sleeveless evening dress with a dropped waist. The hem comes to below the knee and is trimmed with ostrich feathers. The dress features an integral scarf which is trimmed with the same feathers and hangs down the woman’s back to waist level. She is touching her pearl necklace. The design is marked ‘No 12.’
Dimensions
  • Height: 45.1cm
  • Width: 26cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • No 12 (Handwritten in ink at the bottom of the design)
  • 494/ 7 1/2" Deep (Handwritten and underlined in pencil, bottom right)
  • THE "ROSELAND" STUDIO. (Stamped in ink, bottom left)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs Pamela Joan Gordon in memory of her father, George Frederick Willetts (1893-1961)
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.3226-2004

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Record createdJuly 15, 2004
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