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Design

16/10/1559 (Designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Designs for embroidery from a volume of designs by Lunardo Fero dedicated to Elena Foscara, 16 October 1559.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and wash on laid paper
Brief description
Design for embroidery from a volume of designs by Lunardo Fero.
Physical description
Leaf of six different designs laid out in a horizontal format at regular intervals on cream-coloured laid paper with a watermark. Each design is one, narrow line of decoration in pen and brown ink including respectively in order: leaf forms; palmettes; leaves the undersides of which are shaded in yellow-ochre wash; looping forms laid out in a chain with the centres filled in with wash; trefoils alternating with linking arrow heads with the spaces between filled in with wash; a line of scrolling acanthus.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.3cm
  • Width: 14.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'3' (At bottom right written in pen and the same brown ink as that in which the design is drawn.)
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Designs for embroidery from a volume of designs by Lunardo Fero dedicated to Elena Foscara, 16 October 1559.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1909, London: Printed For His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910
Collection
Accession number
E.1940:3-1909

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Record createdSeptember 21, 2005
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