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Rug design

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1866-1934

Title

Rug design

Date of Production

1913 - 1914

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper; remnant of another design below torn off at lower edge

Dimensions

Height: 19.2 cm
Height: 29.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.28

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This is an initial design for a rug, which, if successful, would be taken through stages of refinement before being sent to the manufacturer, probably the Royal Wilton Carpet Factory in London. This design was also worked up as a repeat pattern, perhaps for wallpaper, enabling a potential unified scheme for floors and walls. The sheet, which has been torn on all four edges, features a fragment of another rug design. This rug can be identified as the one commissioned in 1914 by the Cadena Café in London.

Provenance

Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958

Exhibition History

Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009

Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 01/08/1990-02/12/1990

Literature

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 26
ill. on p. 107

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, blue ink: “HHF. 263” and added after in graphite: “/28”.

Stamp: Verso, left centre: stamped four times (but thrice only partially) in green: square containing ?.

Collector's mark: none.

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