Design
25/12/1716 (designed)
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Design for woven silk from the 'Leman Album', in pencil, red pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, in yellow, orange, pink, red and green, depicting two large and colourful floral sprigs in diametrically opposite corners of the design, superimposed over a pale brown stylised floral, foliate and decorative pattern which fills the background.
The design is squared up for cords and dezines, with dezines numbered. This has been done in ink and in red pencil to a slightly different scale.
The design is squared up for cords and dezines, with dezines numbered. This has been done in ink and in red pencil to a slightly different scale.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil, red pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper |
| Brief description | Design for woven silk from the 'Leman Album', pencil, red pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, by James Leman, Spitalfields, 1716 |
| Physical description | Design for woven silk from the 'Leman Album', in pencil, red pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, in yellow, orange, pink, red and green, depicting two large and colourful floral sprigs in diametrically opposite corners of the design, superimposed over a pale brown stylised floral, foliate and decorative pattern which fills the background. The design is squared up for cords and dezines, with dezines numbered. This has been done in ink and in red pencil to a slightly different scale. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with Art Fund support and the National Heritage Memorial Fund |
| Object history | This is a design from the so-called 'Leman album' which was bought from Vanners Silks Ltd. in 1991. Natalie Rothstein catalogued the designs before the album was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum. She gave each design a VS number (for Vanners Silks) in her catalogue Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century. The designs have been subsequently numbered by the Prints, Drawings and Paintings Department, however, a concordance exists. Historical significance: The designs collected in the album are, with the exception of some fragmentary medieval examples in Italian collections, the earliest silk designs known to exist. |
| Bibliographic reference | Rothstein, Natalie. Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London with a Complete Catalogue with 473 Illustrations, 371 in Colour. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. 351p., ill. ISBN 0500235899.
p. 106, pl. 36 |
| Other number | VS.3 - 'VS' stands for Vanners Silks which owned the album when Natalie Rothstein catalogued it for her publication <u>Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century</u>. |
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| Accession number | E.1861:4-1991 |
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| Record created | May 2, 2002 |
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