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On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Textile Design

c.1918 (made)
Artist/Maker
William Foxton Ltd. (designed for)
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie (maker)
Place of origin
Scotland (made)

Curvilinear forms, against a trellis background. On the reverse of the mount as uncompleted curvilinear design in pencil. Inscribed in pencil in capitals below the design 'Foxton'.

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Drawings
Designs
Scotland
Object type
Textile design
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour on paper, mounted on card
Pencil
Watercolour
Paper
Card
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Curvilinear forms against a trellis background. Design for a textile for William Foxton, Scottish, c.1918
Physical description
Curvilinear forms, against a trellis background. On the reverse of the mount as uncompleted curvilinear design in pencil. Inscribed in pencil in capitals below the design 'Foxton'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.8cm
  • Width: 20.3cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1968 London: HMSO 1969
Marks and inscriptions
'Foxton' (Inscribed in pencil in capitals below the design)
Gallery label
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
Design for a printed textile
British, about 1920
Pencil and watercolour

Mackintosh left Glasgow in 1914. The architectural
commissions had dried up and his last building,
the Glasgow School of Art Library had received
almost no publicity. In 1916 he settled in London
and apart from a few commissions from enlightened
and tolerant patrons like J. W. Bassett-Lowke he
did little work apart from some textile designs
for the firms of Foxton's and Sefton's. These tend
to combine geometric patterns, bold stripes and
stylised floral motifs.

E.858-1968
Given by James Meldrum
Credit line
Given by Mr. James Meldrum
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969
  • 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.858-1968

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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