Birds and Berries
Textile Design
December 1897 (made)
December 1897 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Design for textiles with birds, foliage and seeds.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Birds and Berries (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pencil |
| Brief description | C.F.A. Voysey. "Birds and Berries" silk tapestry. British, December 1897 |
| Physical description | Design for textiles with birds, foliage and seeds. |
| Dimensions |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'the filling in of these seeds with
another colour is a suggestion
of what to avoid. They might
be composed of crossed threads of
two kinds of yellow. But they
must be kept nearly the
same colour as the birds'.
Signed 'CFA Voysey / 6 Carlton Hill / NW' and dated 'December 1897' |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.151-1974 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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