Request to view

This object can be requested via email from the Prints & Drawings Study Room

Image of Gallery in South Kensington

We don’t have an image of this object online yet.

More about images

V&A Images may have a photograph that we can’t show online, but it may be possible to supply one to you. Email us at vaimages@vam.ac.uk for guidance about fees and timescales, quoting the accession number: E.3210-2004

Design for Wiletts and Sons

Design
1930s (made)
Artist/Maker
Willetts & Sons (commissioned by)
Place of origin
London (made)

Drawing in ink of a young woman wearing a dress with a full tiered skirt, holding a parasol, wearing a bonnet with a long bow which trails down her back. The number 32 is written in ink below the design.

Object details

Categories
Fashion
Labels & Packaging
Drawings
Object type
Design
TitleDesign for Wiletts and Sons (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink and pencil on card
Ink
Paper
Drawn
Brief description
A design drawing showing a young woman carrying a parasol and wearing a tiered dress from the packaging firm of Willetts and Sons, London, 1930s
Physical description
Drawing in ink of a young woman wearing a dress with a full tiered skirt, holding a parasol, wearing a bonnet with a long bow which trails down her back. The number 32 is written in ink below the design.
Dimensions
  • Height: 36.8cm
  • Width: 26.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'WILLETTS (Tidypaks) LTD./ 7 & 9 Railway Approach,/ TWICKENHAM, MDDX.' (Stamped in ink three times on the front of the design and once on the reverse)
  • 'Reduce to 7 1/2 inches' (Handwritten in blue pencil along the right edge. The '7 1/2' has been crossed out in red pencil.)
  • '2 1/2"' (Handwritten in red pencil along the right edge, over the '7 1/2')
  • '7 3/16' (Handwritten in pencil and crossed out in red pencil, top right corner)
  • '32' (Handwritten in ink and corssed out in purple pencil, bottom right)
  • 'UN/MTD' (Stamped in ink on the reverse)
  • 'W.8786/ K 1' (Handwritten in blue ink on the reverse)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs Pamela Joan Gordon in memory of her father, George Frederick Willetts (1893-1961)
Subjects depicted
Figures
Women
Dresses
Bonnet
Ribbon
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3210-2004

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdJuly 16, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O101647/design-for-wiletts-and-sons-design-willetts--sons/
Download as: JSON