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Embroidery Scroll

Textile Design
1906 (made)
Artist/Maker
Turnbull & Stockdale Ltd. (manufacturers)
Day, Lewis Foreman (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (designed)

Design for machines-printed cotton fabric. Signed with monogram and dated in ink 'LFD. 1906', inscribed with title, working notes etc. and 'No.647' and inscribed in pencil 'Des 4231'.

Object details

Categories
Drawings
Designs
Textiles
Object type
Textile design
TitleEmbroidery Scroll (trade title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Watercolour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Lewis Foreman Day. "Embroidery Scroll" Design for a printed textile. British, 1906.
Physical description
Design for machines-printed cotton fabric. Signed with monogram and dated in ink 'LFD. 1906', inscribed with title, working notes etc. and 'No.647' and inscribed in pencil 'Des 4231'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40.01cm
  • Width: 40.64cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1954 London: HMSO 1963
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'LFD. 1906' (Signed with monogram and dated in ink)
  • 'No.647' (Inscribed with title, working notes etc. and)
  • 'Des 4231' (Inscribed in pencil)
Credit line
Given by Turnbull & Stockdale Ltd.
Subject depicted
Textiles
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1954 London: HMSO, 1963
  • 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
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.253-1954

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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