Alice in Wonderland
Textile Design
1930 (made)
1930 (made)
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Charles Francis Annesley (better known by his initials C. F. A.) Voysey (1857–1941) is one of the best-known and most enduringly popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practising architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles and fabrics. His two-dimensional designs, created from the 1880s to the early 1930s, are among his best-known works today and are characterized by simple, stylized, rhythmic repeat patterns featuring motifs found in the natural world. This Alice in Wonderland textile design, featuring characters from John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's book, is Voysey's last dated pattern. It was to become the most commercially popular of all his repeating designs and is still reproduced today.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Alice in Wonderland (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour |
| Brief description | C.F.A. Voysey, textile design for 'Alice in Wonderland' British, about 1930s |
| Physical description | Design for textile entitled 'Alice in Wonderland'. Voysey has characters from Tenniel's illustrations to Carroll's text and arranged them as a flat pattern |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed in pen and ink with colour notes and '10 may be omitted or substituted / when printed on white ground / the total number of prints will be nice' and 'sold to Morton June 1930'. Signed and dated 'CF Annesley Voysey FRIBA, Inst. et delt / 73 St. James's St. SW1' |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Literary reference | alice in wonderland |
| Summary | Charles Francis Annesley (better known by his initials C. F. A.) Voysey (1857–1941) is one of the best-known and most enduringly popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practising architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles and fabrics. His two-dimensional designs, created from the 1880s to the early 1930s, are among his best-known works today and are characterized by simple, stylized, rhythmic repeat patterns featuring motifs found in the natural world. This Alice in Wonderland textile design, featuring characters from John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's book, is Voysey's last dated pattern. It was to become the most commercially popular of all his repeating designs and is still reproduced today. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.769-1931 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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