Sweet Lavender

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Artist/Maker	Craig (Artist)
Place of origin	London (Made)

Watercolour showing a woman with a basket of lavender in one hand and a single bunch in the other. She is standing in front of Temple Bar.

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Category	Watercolours
Object type	Watercolour
Title	Sweet Lavender (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Water-colour, pen and ink on paper Watercolour Pen and Ink Paper Painting
Brief description	Watercolour by William Marshall Craig showing a woman selling lavender at Temple Bar, London, 1804. Reproduced as an aquatint in Richard Phillips' 'Modern London' of 1804.
Physical description	Watercolour showing a woman with a basket of lavender in one hand and a single bunch in the other. She is standing in front of Temple Bar.
Dimensions	Height: 16cm Width: 10.8cm The painted image does not fill the whole page. There is a margin around the image of about 2-3cm.
Production type	Unique
Marks and inscriptions	W M. CRAIG. 1804. (Signature; date; Margin: below centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink) Sweet Lavender (picture title; Margin: above centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink) Temple Bar (Textual information; Margin: below centre; Handwriting; Pen and ink) This day is published, priced 6''... (Textual information; On the back; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
Object history	Purchased along with 8040.1-5 and 8040.7-10 from W. Headlam, November 10 1874. The purchase price below is for the group.
Production	Attribution note: Intended to be engraved as a book illustration
Subjects depicted	Flowers, Lavender Flower Baskets Capes (Outerwear) Trade Occupations, Trading Working Class
Places depicted	London Temple Bar (London)
Association	Phillips
Bibliographic references	Celina Fox, 'Londoners', Thames & Hudson, 1987, pp.124, 144, 146, 163-4 Richard Phillips, 'Modern London', 1804/5
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	8040:6/A

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Record created	October 16, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O48855/sweet-lavender-watercolour-craig/

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