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Watercolour

1899 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Hunter, Ada (artist)
Place of origin
London (drawn)

Watercolour of a Guatemalan textile pattern (see Maudsley textile collection, T.17 to 92-1931).

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Illustration
Drawings
Woman Artist
Watercolours
Object type
Watercolour
Materials and techniques
Watercolour drawing
Watercolour
Paper
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Drawing by Ada and Blanche Hunter, watercolour after a Guatemalan textile, British, 1899, illustration to "A Glimpse of Guatemala" by A. C. and A. P. Maudsley, 1899
Physical description
Watercolour of a Guatemalan textile pattern (see Maudsley textile collection, T.17 to 92-1931).
Dimensions
  • Height: 235mm
  • Width: 177mm
Credit line
Given by Mr F. C. Morgan
Object history
Painted by Ada Hunter (who, with her sister Blanche, was one of the official V&A house artists at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, painting many textile reconstructions of antique textile fragments in the Textiles Collections.) These were done as illustrations for "A Glimpse of Guatemala" by Anne Cary and Alfred Percival Maudsley, 1899. The Maudsley textile collection was bequeathed to the Textiles Department in 1931 (see T.17 to 92-1931)
Bibliographic references
  • John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986
  • Anne Cary Maudsley and Alfred Percival Maudsley, A Glimpse of Guatemala, London, 1899.
  • John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1935. London: HMSO, 1936.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.429-1935

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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