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Two Turtle Doves

Greetings Card
2007 (designed), 2007 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Art Fund (issuer)
Art Fund Services (designers)
Bell, Cressida (designer)
Place of origin
Britain (designed)
Britain (issued)

This Christmas card was issued by The Art Fund in 2007 to raise funds and was sent to Sir John and Lady Ritblat who subsequently donated it to the Museum. It reproduces a 2000 design by Cressida Bell. Cressida Bell is a British designer and illustrator specialising in textiles and interiors whose decorative style attests to the influence of her Bloomsbury Group forebears (her father was Quentin Bell and her grandmother Vanessa Bell).

Object details

Categories
Greeting Cards
Christmas
Object type
Greetings card
TitleTwo Turtle Doves (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithography on card
Card
Lithography
Brief description
Christmas card, 'Two Turtle Doves' by Cressida Bell, Britain, 2000, issued as a Christmas card by The Art Fund, Britain, 2007.
Physical description
Rectangular (portrait format) folded (left hand edge) textured white card. On the front: colour image in red, black and cream depicting two turtle doves sitting on a nest of decorated eggs, one dove holding an olive branch, against a night sky decorated with stars. Inside: printed and handwritten greetings. On the back: printed information, thumbnail of the front image and logo of The Art Fund.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.2cm
  • Folded width: 12.3cm
  • Open width: 24.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Cressida Bell' (Signed within the image)
  • 'With Best Wishes for / Christmas and the New Year' (Printed in grey inside)
  • 'John and Jill, / Colin / (and all at Charleston!)' (Handwritten in black ink inside)
  • (Handwritten tick in pencil inside, top right corner)
  • 'Sold in aid of The Art Fund / We are an independent charity committed to saving / art for everyone to enjoy. Since we began in 1903, / we have helped to save over 860, 000 works of art. / For more information, please call 0870 848 2003 / www.artfund.org / Printed on board from a sustainable forest source / Registered charity 209174 Design © Art Fund Services 2007 / 648 / Cressida Bell / Two Turtle Doves, 2000 / © the artist' (Printed on the back in pink, black and grey)
Credit line
Given by Lady Ritblat
Production
Image created in 2000
Subjects depicted
Turtle Doves
Eggs
Nests
Olive Branches
Stars
Summary
This Christmas card was issued by The Art Fund in 2007 to raise funds and was sent to Sir John and Lady Ritblat who subsequently donated it to the Museum. It reproduces a 2000 design by Cressida Bell. Cressida Bell is a British designer and illustrator specialising in textiles and interiors whose decorative style attests to the influence of her Bloomsbury Group forebears (her father was Quentin Bell and her grandmother Vanessa Bell).
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.848-2008

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Record createdJuly 13, 2010
Record URL
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