The Grotesque
Textile Design
1886 (made)
1886 (made)
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Day wrote many books and articles on ornament and design. He believed that a drawing of a plant should follow certain rules rather than be a picture of one particular flower. Artists should portray plants in a rather simplified and stylised way, as in Japanese drawings, although the different varieties would still be recognisable.
Here Day has used firm, clear lines for his modern version of traditional acanthus scrolls. The strange beasts you see here are similar to those used in the decoration of 14th century manuscripts.
Here Day has used firm, clear lines for his modern version of traditional acanthus scrolls. The strange beasts you see here are similar to those used in the decoration of 14th century manuscripts.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour |
| Brief description | Lewis Foreman Day. "The Grotesque". Design for a printed textile. British, 1886 |
| Physical description | Textile design |
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| Credit line | Given by Turnbull & Stockdale Ltd. |
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| Summary | Day wrote many books and articles on ornament and design. He believed that a drawing of a plant should follow certain rules rather than be a picture of one particular flower. Artists should portray plants in a rather simplified and stylised way, as in Japanese drawings, although the different varieties would still be recognisable. Here Day has used firm, clear lines for his modern version of traditional acanthus scrolls. The strange beasts you see here are similar to those used in the decoration of 14th century manuscripts. |
| Bibliographic reference | John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986 |
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| Accession number | E.245-1954 |
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| Record created | February 20, 2003 |
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