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Album

1933-1934 (made)
Artist/Maker
Société Lyonnaise De Teinture, Impression, Apprêt Et Gaufrage (manufacturer)
Unknown (designer)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Pattern-book containing 179 specimens of silk prints on paper, bound in paper boards with a canvas spine.

Object details

Categories
Advertising
Prints
Object type
Album
Materials and techniques
Machine printed
Paper
Canvas
Machine Printing
Binding
Letterpress
Brief description
Pattern-book containing specimens (179, 2 duplicated) of silk prints on paper, bound in paper boards, with a canvas spine. Machine prints produced by the Société Lyonnaise de Teinture, Impression, Apprêt et Gaufrage, Paris, 1933-34.
Physical description
Pattern-book containing 179 specimens of silk prints on paper, bound in paper boards with a canvas spine.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 20.3cm
  • Size of volume width: 22.2cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Lettered with manufacturers' name and addresses, date etc, in letterpress on the front cover, and one page of letterpress introduction)
  • (Each print stamped on the back with serial number etc.)
Credit line
Given by British Nylon Spinners Ltd.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1239-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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