Design
16/10/1559 (Designed)
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Designs for embroidery from a volume of designs by Lunardo Fero dedicated to Elena Foscara, 16 October 1559.
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Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper |
Brief description | Design for embroidery from a volume of designs by Lunardo Fero |
Physical description | Leaf of three different designs laid out in a vertical format at regular intervals on cream-coloured laid paper with a watermark. Each design is one line of decoration in pen and brown ink including respectively in order from the left:; palmettes seen from the side and leaf forms with interlacing stems, the spaces between are filled in with yellow-ochre watercolour; a band of everlasting knots; a branch of leaves painted in green watercolour, |
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Marks and inscriptions | '16' (The figure is written in the same brown ink as that in which the designs are drawn.) |
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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 |
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Accession number | E.1940:16-1909 |
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Record created | October 18, 2005 |
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