Tiger lily
Design
1896 (made)
1896 (made)
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Object Type
This design for a textile is a superb example of Lindsey Butterfield's skills as a draughtsman and watercolorist. The pattern was sold to G.P.& J. Baker, and was printed as a textile on a white ground in 1896.
People
Lindsey Butterfield (1869-1948) was one of the most successful freelance designers of patterns who worked in the Arts and Crafts style. This design is in the Arts and Crafts style. Butterfield later went on to work for the Silver Studio, an influential design firm which produced many patterns for wallpapers and textiles up to the 1950s.
Design & Designing
Butterfield trained at the National Art Training School at South Kensington from 1889 to 1891 where he studied the underlying geometry of plants. This training resulted in a close attention to the detail of plant forms in his designs. He was also a keen gardener with a firsthand knowledge of plants, as this design shows. Butterfield's early designs were based on plant forms that were recognisable but subtly stylised, deriving their influence ultimately from designers William Morris (1834-1896) and C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941).
This design for a textile is a superb example of Lindsey Butterfield's skills as a draughtsman and watercolorist. The pattern was sold to G.P.& J. Baker, and was printed as a textile on a white ground in 1896.
People
Lindsey Butterfield (1869-1948) was one of the most successful freelance designers of patterns who worked in the Arts and Crafts style. This design is in the Arts and Crafts style. Butterfield later went on to work for the Silver Studio, an influential design firm which produced many patterns for wallpapers and textiles up to the 1950s.
Design & Designing
Butterfield trained at the National Art Training School at South Kensington from 1889 to 1891 where he studied the underlying geometry of plants. This training resulted in a close attention to the detail of plant forms in his designs. He was also a keen gardener with a firsthand knowledge of plants, as this design shows. Butterfield's early designs were based on plant forms that were recognisable but subtly stylised, deriving their influence ultimately from designers William Morris (1834-1896) and C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | watercolour |
| Brief description | Lindsay P. Butterfield. Tiger Lily - design for printed textile. British, 1896. |
| Physical description | watercolour drawing on paper |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed in pencil: 'Cut 1896' and Numbered 'B427' |
| Gallery label | British Galleries:
Lindsay Butterfield was one of the most successful free-lance designers of patterns in the Arts and Crafts style. He was a fine draughtsman and watercolourist, as this design shows, and a keen gardener with a firsthand knowledge of plants which he used as a source for his designs. The pattern was sold to the printed fabric manufacturers G.P.& J. Baker, and printed on a white ground.(27/03/2003) |
| Credit line | Given by G. P. & J. Baker |
| Object history | Designed by Lindsay P. Butterfield (born in 1869, died in 1948) |
| Summary | Object Type This design for a textile is a superb example of Lindsey Butterfield's skills as a draughtsman and watercolorist. The pattern was sold to G.P.& J. Baker, and was printed as a textile on a white ground in 1896. People Lindsey Butterfield (1869-1948) was one of the most successful freelance designers of patterns who worked in the Arts and Crafts style. This design is in the Arts and Crafts style. Butterfield later went on to work for the Silver Studio, an influential design firm which produced many patterns for wallpapers and textiles up to the 1950s. Design & Designing Butterfield trained at the National Art Training School at South Kensington from 1889 to 1891 where he studied the underlying geometry of plants. This training resulted in a close attention to the detail of plant forms in his designs. He was also a keen gardener with a firsthand knowledge of plants, as this design shows. Butterfield's early designs were based on plant forms that were recognisable but subtly stylised, deriving their influence ultimately from designers William Morris (1834-1896) and C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941). |
| Bibliographic reference | John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986 |
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| Accession number | E.68-1961 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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