Mistress Mary
Wallpaper
1903 (made)
1903 (made)
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Design for a wallpaper frieze, 'Mistress Mary', based on the popular English nursery rhyme 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'; The design depicts a woman with a watering can, standing infront of a hedge and flower bed lined with cockle shells, flanked eitherside by sculpted trees; Lettered above the image; Mistress Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells & cockleshells And pretty maids all of a row; Watercolour on paper.
Object details
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| Title | Mistress Mary (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Design for a wallpaper frieze, 'Mistress Mary', based on the popular English nursery rhyme 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'; The design depicts a woman with a watering can, standing infront of a hedge and flower bed lined with cockle shells, flanked eitherside by sculpted trees; Designed by Walter Crane; Watercolour on paper; England; 1903. |
| Physical description | Design for a wallpaper frieze, 'Mistress Mary', based on the popular English nursery rhyme 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'; The design depicts a woman with a watering can, standing infront of a hedge and flower bed lined with cockle shells, flanked eitherside by sculpted trees; Lettered above the image; Mistress Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells & cockleshells And pretty maids all of a row; Watercolour on paper. |
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| Production type | Design |
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| Production | Dated 1903. |
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| Literary reference | Based on the popular English nursery rhyme 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'. The rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (c. 1744). There are a number of versions of the rhyme and its origins and meaning are disputed. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982. |
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| Accession number | E.2329-1920 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2009 |
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