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Design for 'September' tile panel in V&A Grill Room

Design
28/08/1871 (made)
Artist/Maker
Poynter, Edward John (Sir) (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Black chalk drawing highlighted with white. Tile panel for the month of September: clothed female figure and hand studies


Object details

Categories
History of the V&A
Drawings
Object type
Design
TitleDesign for 'September' tile panel in V&A Grill Room (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Chalk drawing.
Chalk
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
E. J. Poynter, design for 'September' tile panel in V&A Grill Room: clothed female figure and hand studies, drawn, 1871
Physical description
Black chalk drawing highlighted with white. Tile panel for the month of September: clothed female figure and hand studies
Dimensions
  • Height: 457mm
  • Width: 294mm
Various sizes.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Aug. 28./71'
  • E. 5276 dated 'Aug. 28./71' (Inscription from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921)
Object history
Poynter was invited to tender for the decoration of the V&A Grill Room in November 1865. Judging from the nineteenth Report of the Science and Art Department, the Grill Room's large tile panels, derived from designs including these studies, were all installed by the end of 1871. A note on this particular sheet of studies gives the date 'Aug. 28./71', but the context in which it was written is unclear. At the time of acquisition, object numbers E.5272-1919 to E.5284-1919, which includes the present studies, were collectively dated to 1871 (see 1919 V&A Accession Register). Although this dating is not necessarily always accurate, Poynter's highly finished, coloured design for 'September' (Museum object number 7916:9), apparently derived from the present studies, bears his monogram signature with the date 1871.
Subjects depicted
Tile Panel
September
Place depicted
Victoria and Albert Museum
Bibliographic references
  • Nineteenth Report of the Science and Art Department. London: printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1872, p. 388
  • Physick, John. The Victoria and Albert Museum: The History of Its Building. London: The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1982, pp. 139-141 and pls. XXVII-XXIX
  • Sheppard, F. H. W. (general ed.). Survey of London, vol. XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster. London: Athlone Press, University of London, 1975, p. 111 and pl. 15
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.5276-1919

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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