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The Owl

Wallpaper Design
1897 (made)
Artist/Maker
Essex & Co. (manufacturer)
Alexander Morton & Co. (manufacturer)
Alexander Morton & Co. (manufacturer)
C. F. A. Voysey (designer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Design for 'The Owl' wallpaper and textile pattern, showing pairs of owls and nests of chicks, large foliage and white berries, amongst foliage and white berries

Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Designs
Textiles
Drawings
Object type
Wallpaper design
TitleThe Owl (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour, on paper
Paper
Pencil
Water-Colour
Watercolour Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
Design by C. F. A. Voysey for 'The Owl' wallpaper and textile pattern, London, 1897
Physical description
Design for 'The Owl' wallpaper and textile pattern, showing pairs of owls and nests of chicks, large foliage and white berries, amongst foliage and white berries
Dimensions
  • Height: 522mm
  • Width: 430mm
Content description
Design in shades of green, grey and blue on a blue background
Credit line
Given by C.F.A Voysey by request of the Museum
Object history
Produced as a paper by Essex & Co., 1897; as a hanging in woollen cloth tissue by Alexander Morton & Co., 1898.
A specimen of the textile was shown in the exhibition, Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts, VAM, 1952, catalogue no S.22.
Production
Produced as a paper by Essex & Co., 1897; as a hanging in woollen cloth tissue by Alexander Morton & Co., 1898
Subjects depicted
Symmetry
Owls
Birds' Nests
Chicks
Berries
Leaves (Plant Materials)
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Oman, Charles C. and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
  • 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.263-1913

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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