Design
1375-1399 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Tracing of the verso of a design for a woven silk with on the left three hares in a circle above which is a chalice within a hexagon and on the right are three ducks in water above which is the dove of the Holy Spirit on brown tracing paper attached to a cream-coloured card support.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | pen and bistre on tracing paper mounted on card |
| Brief description | Tracing of a design for a woven silk, Venetian, last quarter of the fourteenth century |
| Physical description | Tracing of the verso of a design for a woven silk with on the left three hares in a circle above which is a chalice within a hexagon and on the right are three ducks in water above which is the dove of the Holy Spirit on brown tracing paper attached to a cream-coloured card support. |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | Blind stamp of crown within an oval with an oval band of lettering around the crown. (Science and Art Department blind stamp for the South Kensington Museum in the top left corner. The lettering usually says ' SCIENCE & ART DEPARMENT' around the outer band and then 'ART LIBRARY' beneath the crown.) |
| Production | Attribution note: The meandering motif of barley stalks and heads is possibly for embroidery. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Coutts, Howard, Evans, Mark and Monnas, Lisa, 'An early Italian drawing in the Victorian and Albert Museum'. The Burlington Magazine. Volume CL, number 1263, June 2008, pp. 389-392, ill. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 2328A |
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| Record created | February 18, 2008 |
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