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Print

ca.1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular dinner-table place card, with a drawing in pen and ink and water-colour of a rural scene, depicting two cows in a gated field. Includes an oblong space cut out for the insertion of the diner's name, which is still in place.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink, water-colour, drawing
Brief description
One of a set of 24 circular dinner-table place cards (and one from another set), showing land and seascapes and rural scenes. By an unknown artist, ca.1880.
Physical description
Circular dinner-table place card, with a drawing in pen and ink and water-colour of a rural scene, depicting two cows in a gated field. Includes an oblong space cut out for the insertion of the diner's name, which is still in place.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1964. London: HMSO, 1965.
Credit line
Given by Miss Mary Farnworth
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1964. London: HMSO, 1965.
Collection
Accession number
E.26-1964

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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