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Sketches for small tile panels

Design
1867 (made)
Artist/Maker
Poynter, Edward John (Sir) (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Chalk sketches for small tile panels.


Object details

Categories
History of the V&A
Drawings
Object type
Design
Titles
  • Sketches for small tile panels (generic title)
  • Design for decorative tiles for the Grill Room, South Kensington Museum (published title)
Materials and techniques
Chalk on paper.
Chalk
Paper
Pencil
Wash
Drawing
Brief description
E. J. Poynter, design for dado tiles in V&A Grill Room: arrangement scheme. 1867, possibly.
Physical description
Chalk sketches for small tile panels.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9 1/2in (Note: Measurement from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921)
  • Width: 5 1/4in (Note: Measurement from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921)
  • Height: 23.7cm
  • Width: 12.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
Each stamped E J P (monogr.). (Inscription from: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921)
Object history
Poynter was invited to tender for the decoration of the V&A Grill Room in November 1865. Judging from the seventeenth Report of the Science and Art Department, the Grill Room's dado tiles, derived from designs including this one, were all installed by the end of 1869 at the latest. The dating of this design to 1871 at the time of acquisition, collectively with object numbers E.5272-1919 to E.5284-1919, is therefore inaccurate (see 1919 V&A Accession Register). This particular design may be the one referred to by Poynter in a letter dated 22nd May 1867: 'I enclose a sketch showing how I propose treating the tiles to be placed [...] round the lower part of the Refreshment Room, the upper row of circular panels will contain figure subjects, + the lower row landscapes all of which will be different + which I [should] have to paint myself[,] the square panels will cont[ain] flower subjects - three [designs] to be repeated throughout'.
Subject depicted
Tile
Bibliographic references
  • PRO, Ed. 84/67, 22 May 1867
  • Seventeenth Report of the Science and Art Department. London: printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1870, p. 455
  • Physick, John. The Victoria and Albert Museum: The History of Its Building. London: The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1982, pp. 139-141 and pls. XXVII-XXIX
  • Sheppard, F. H. W. (general ed.). Survey of London, vol. XXXVIII: The Museums Area of South Kensington and Westminster. London: Athlone Press, University of London, 1975, p. 111 and pl. 15
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.5279-1919

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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