Drawing
ca. 1900 (designed)
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Design for a textile showing hyacinths and plant tendrils on a plain ground.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Preliminary pencil, ink and watercolour |
| Brief description | Design for a textile, school of Alphonse Mucha, pencil, ink and watercolour, Paris, ca.1900 |
| Physical description | Design for a textile showing hyacinths and plant tendrils on a plain ground. |
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| Object history | Forrer was an industrial designer who settled in Paris. His atelier was at 4 Rue des Jeuners. |
| Production | Mucha worked in the atelier of C. G. Forrer as did the designer of this textile. The detailed floral forms and sinuous lines seem to have been influenced by Mucha's style. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1855-1991 |
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| Record created | March 2, 2009 |
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