Sample
1820s (made)
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Object Type
The practice of painting designs onto silk velvet was an outlet for the amateur artist, to create panels that she could then make into decorative objects with her needle. She might compose the design herself, or buy it, like this one. The effect of the paint colours on the pile of the velvet gave the pattern a density and texture quite different from the crispness and delicacy of painted taffeta and satin, popular from the later 18th century.
People
This watercolour design came to the V&A in a collection of designs and examples of painted velvet, with a trade card inscribed 'Mr. Henry, Artist. Miniature Profile. Velvet. Ornament Painter'. The design is signed 'H.H. Henry', but nothing further is known about him. His designs can be compared to those illustrated by Nathaniel Whittock in The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature; Flowers, Fruit, and Shells: To Which is Added, Correct Directions for Preparing the Most Brilliant Colours for Painting on Velvet, with the Mode of UsingThem: Also the New Method of Oriental Tinting, published in London in 1829.
The practice of painting designs onto silk velvet was an outlet for the amateur artist, to create panels that she could then make into decorative objects with her needle. She might compose the design herself, or buy it, like this one. The effect of the paint colours on the pile of the velvet gave the pattern a density and texture quite different from the crispness and delicacy of painted taffeta and satin, popular from the later 18th century.
People
This watercolour design came to the V&A in a collection of designs and examples of painted velvet, with a trade card inscribed 'Mr. Henry, Artist. Miniature Profile. Velvet. Ornament Painter'. The design is signed 'H.H. Henry', but nothing further is known about him. His designs can be compared to those illustrated by Nathaniel Whittock in The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature; Flowers, Fruit, and Shells: To Which is Added, Correct Directions for Preparing the Most Brilliant Colours for Painting on Velvet, with the Mode of UsingThem: Also the New Method of Oriental Tinting, published in London in 1829.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Sample of a design for painted velvet, made by H.H. Henry, Great Britain, 1820s. |
| Physical description | Painted on paper with watercolour is a sample of design for painted velvet. The centre of the design shows a poppy, convolulus painted in details, a large purple flower and green leaf. The design stands in an oval of graded ivy leaves, crossed at the top. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | At the bottom is the signiture 'H.H. Henry' |
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| Object history | Made in Britain by H.H. Henry |
| Summary | Object Type The practice of painting designs onto silk velvet was an outlet for the amateur artist, to create panels that she could then make into decorative objects with her needle. She might compose the design herself, or buy it, like this one. The effect of the paint colours on the pile of the velvet gave the pattern a density and texture quite different from the crispness and delicacy of painted taffeta and satin, popular from the later 18th century. People This watercolour design came to the V&A in a collection of designs and examples of painted velvet, with a trade card inscribed 'Mr. Henry, Artist. Miniature Profile. Velvet. Ornament Painter'. The design is signed 'H.H. Henry', but nothing further is known about him. His designs can be compared to those illustrated by Nathaniel Whittock in The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature; Flowers, Fruit, and Shells: To Which is Added, Correct Directions for Preparing the Most Brilliant Colours for Painting on Velvet, with the Mode of UsingThem: Also the New Method of Oriental Tinting, published in London in 1829. |
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| Accession number | T.131-1975 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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