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Design for Wiletts and Sons

Design
1920s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing in pen and ink on cream card of a young woman with short hair and a curl in the middle of her forehead pulling on a string of pearls around her neck, wearing a long, capped-sleeved dress with a dropped waist. The dress is constructed of two parts, a pleated under-dress and a top layer of floral fabric left open at the front to reveal the under-dress. Around the waist is a large belt decorated with a large flower. In the right-hand corner of the card, written in blue, are instructions to the printer. The design is marked ‘No 11’. On the reverse is a pencil sketch of another figure.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for Wiletts and Sons (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and pencil on card
Brief description
A design drawing by the Roseland Studio for the packaging firm of Willetts and Sons, London, showing a woman with a pearl necklace, 1920s
Physical description
Drawing in pen and ink on cream card of a young woman with short hair and a curl in the middle of her forehead pulling on a string of pearls around her neck, wearing a long, capped-sleeved dress with a dropped waist. The dress is constructed of two parts, a pleated under-dress and a top layer of floral fabric left open at the front to reveal the under-dress. Around the waist is a large belt decorated with a large flower. In the right-hand corner of the card, written in blue, are instructions to the printer. The design is marked ‘No 11’. On the reverse is a pencil sketch of another figure.
Dimensions
  • Height: 45.3cm
  • Width: 26.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • No 11 (Handwritten in black ink, bottom left)
  • THE "ROSELAND" STUDIO. (Stamped in ink, bottom left)
  • 494/ 7 1/2" Deep (Handwritten and underlined in pencil, bottom right)
  • We Require the No 11 and/ numbers on the Drawings to Come out Clearly/ Unnecessary please/ Black over. (Handwritten in blue pencil, bottom right)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs Pamela Joan Gordon in memory of her father, George Frederick Willetts (1893-1961)
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.3225-2004

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Record createdJuly 15, 2004
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