The First Touch

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Artist/Maker	Thomas Stevens (designer) Thomas Stevens (maker)
Place of origin	Coventry (made)

Stevengraph picture woven in silk and mounted on card. Showing a scene from a rugby football match with one team about to score. The players are shown in caps and breeches, one team in blue shirts and the other in yellow, on a green-blue pitch. Both teams wear white breeches and black socks. On a beige mount inscribed 'The First Touch'. On the reverse is a trade label listing other Stevengraphs printed in 1881.

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Categories	Textiles Trade Cards Accessories Sport
Object type	Stevengraph
Title	The First Touch (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Woven in silk and mounted on card
Brief description	Stevengraph picture 'The First Touch' woven in silk and mounted on card, designed and made by Thomas Stevens, Coventry, about 1880
Physical description	Stevengraph picture woven in silk and mounted on card. Showing a scene from a rugby football match with one team about to score. The players are shown in caps and breeches, one team in blue shirts and the other in yellow, on a green-blue pitch. Both teams wear white breeches and black socks. On a beige mount inscribed 'The First Touch'. On the reverse is a trade label listing other Stevengraphs printed in 1881.
Dimensions	Mount length: 8.125in Mount width: 5.375in
Marks and inscriptions	'The First Touch' (Inscribed on the mount)
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	CIRC.344-1976

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O318773/the-first-touch-stevengraph-thomas-stevens/

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