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Isis

Wallpaper Design
ca. 1893 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for 'Isis' wallpaper, green foliage with yellow flowers: Watercolour and body colour, on paper; Signed in ink C. F. A. Voysey: Architect, inscribed 11, Melina Place Grove End Road S.John's Wood. N. W; also inscribed with notes in pen and pencil and 8gns.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleIsis (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and body colour, on paper
Brief description
Design by C. F. A. Voysey for 'Isis' wallpaper, London, about 1893
Physical description
Design for 'Isis' wallpaper, green foliage with yellow flowers: Watercolour and body colour, on paper; Signed in ink C. F. A. Voysey: Architect, inscribed 11, Melina Place Grove End Road S.John's Wood. N. W; also inscribed with notes in pen and pencil and 8gns.
Dimensions
  • Height: 66cm
  • Width: 100.3cm
Dimensions from: 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.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed in ink C. F. A. Voysey: Architect, inscribed 11, Melina Place Grove End Road S.John's Wood. N. W; also inscribed with notes in pen and pencil and 8gns.
Credit line
Given by Mrs Margaret Warner
Object history
Produced by Jeffrey & Co. Given by Mrs Margaret Warner.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
E.40-1945 (Set)
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.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1945, London: HMSO, 1956.
Collection
Accession number
E.39-1945

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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