Design
16/10/1559 (designed)
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Book boards, for album of embroidery designs presented to Elena Foscara, pen, ink and watercolour on paper in cream-coloured vellum with endpapers, front and back, made out of decorative paper printed in dark, horizontal lines along a pale, greenish-yellow background.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Decorative endpapers and vellum backboards |
| Brief description | Backboards, endpapers and binding comprising volume of designs for embroidery for Elena Foscari, pen and ink and watercolour by Lunardo Fero. |
| Physical description | Book boards, for album of embroidery designs presented to Elena Foscara, pen, ink and watercolour on paper in cream-coloured vellum with endpapers, front and back, made out of decorative paper printed in dark, horizontal lines along a pale, greenish-yellow background. |
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| Production | The vellum binding and the striped, decorative endpapers are eighteenth or nineteenth century. The title-page is fairly clean and suggests that the designs were originally bound in a volume even though the binding is not contemporary with the designs. |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1909, London: Printed For His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910 |
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| Accession number | E.1940:1-1909 |
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| Record created | September 21, 2005 |
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