Hexagon
Wallpaper
ca. 1946 (made)
ca. 1946 (made)
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Length of wallpaper with a large-scale 'gothic' pattern of hexagons on a weave-pattern grid alternating with scrollwork in white, yellow and olive on a terracotta ground
Object details
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| Title | Hexagon (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | hand-printed in distemper from lino blocks |
| Brief description | Wallpaper, 'Hexagon' c.1946?, by John Aldridge |
| Physical description | Length of wallpaper with a large-scale 'gothic' pattern of hexagons on a weave-pattern grid alternating with scrollwork in white, yellow and olive on a terracotta ground |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'H7 [in a circle] (Salmon/Terracotta Ground, glazed; Olive, Yellow + White Hexagon) (IJ) / Aldridge / Hexagon' (Textual information; on the back of the sheet at the outer edge; pencil) |
| Credit line | Given by Ian E. Tregarthen Jenkin and Dr E. A. O. Whiteman |
| Object history | This is one of a group of wallpapers by John Aldridge and Edward Bawden which remained at Place House, Great Bardfield, Essex at the time of John Aldridge's death and which were bequeathed by him to Dr. E.A.O. Whiteman and Ian Tregarthen Jenkin. The papers were divided up and given to three institutions: the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at the University of Middlesex, and the V&A. |
| Production | date of design and manufacture is uncertain |
| Bibliographic reference | A Popular Art: British Wallpapers 1930-1960. Middlesex Polytechnic, 1990 (exhibition catalogue) p.62 (no.81), illus. in colour |
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| Accession number | E.846-2000 |
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| Record created | June 26, 2000 |
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