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Drawing

1899-1918 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Designs (2,300) for women’s indoor, outdoor, day and evening dresses, and hats. 1899-1918. On cream laid paper, mounted in 23 albums, each containing 100 pages, bound in brown, green, blue, red or black leather; 78 designs have been extracted from the mounts. Embossed in gold on the front covers ‘Woolland Brothers, Knightsbridge, London.’

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Water-colour
Brief description
One of 23 albums containing designs (2,300) for women's indoor, outdoor, day and evening dresses, and hats. 1899-1918. On cream laid paper, mounted in 23 albums, each containing 100 pages, bound in brown, green, blue, red or black leather; 78 designs have been extracted from the mounts. Embossed in gold on the front covers 'Woolland Brothers, Knightsbridge, London.'
Physical description
Designs (2,300) for women’s indoor, outdoor, day and evening dresses, and hats. 1899-1918. On cream laid paper, mounted in 23 albums, each containing 100 pages, bound in brown, green, blue, red or black leather; 78 designs have been extracted from the mounts. Embossed in gold on the front covers ‘Woolland Brothers, Knightsbridge, London.’
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 29.2cm
  • Size of volume width: 24.2cm
  • Size of sheets height: 19.7cm
  • Size of sheets width: 12.7cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967. London: HMSO, 1968.
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Many lettered with name and address which in some albums has been obliterated with black poster-colour)
  • '1, 3, 6' to '11, 13' to '20, 22' to'28' (Volumes numbered)
  • '1899' to '1918' (Dated)
Credit line
Given by Mr and Mrs A. S. Wightman
Object history
These albums were originally presented to Mr. H. G. Wightman, father of the present donor, who was a buyer for Woolland Brothers from c.1899 and who selected, probably in Paris, the dresses illustrated here, to be made to order in London. Mr. Wightman left the firm on the death of Mr. Samuel Woolland, c.1927.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968.
Collection
Accession number
E.121-1967

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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