Girls and Boys Come Out to Play

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Artist/Maker	William Whiteley (retailer) Crane, Walter (R.W.S.) (designer)
Place of origin	England (made)

Embroidered panel of silks on cotton. Upper edge and sides hemmed. The lower edge formed by the selvege. Rust stained tack holes on the edge of the ground fabric show that the embroidery was tacked to a back board for display.

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Categories	Embroidery Textiles
Object type	Embroidered panel
Title	Girls and Boys Come Out to Play (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Embroidered silks on cotton Cotton (Textile) Silk Thread Embroidered
Brief description	Embroidered panel 'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play' of silks on cotton, after Walter Crane, England, and retailed by William Whiteley, ca.1890
Physical description	Embroidered panel of silks on cotton. Upper edge and sides hemmed. The lower edge formed by the selvege. Rust stained tack holes on the edge of the ground fabric show that the embroidery was tacked to a back board for display.
Dimensions	Embroidery width: 38.6cm Ground fabric width: 44cm Embroidery length: 106cm Ground fabric length: 112.5cm
Production type	Mass produced
Marks and inscriptions	'TRADEMARK / WILLIAM WHITELEY / UNIVERSAL PROVIDER / WESTBOURNE GROVE / LONDON' (Stamped on the reverse of the ground fabric in the left hand upper corner.)
Object history	Purchased. Registered File number 1992/366.
Production	Made ca.1890, after an illustration published in 1877 by Walter Crane taken from his illustrated book 'The Baby's Opera'. Ground fabric with drawn pattern manufactured for and retailed by William Whiteley, Westbourne Grove, London.
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.67-1992

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Record created	July 4, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O81974/girls-and-boys-come-out-embroidered-panel-crane-walter-rws/

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