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Rug design

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1879-1961

Alternatively attributed to
(artist)
1885-1978

Title

Rug design

Date of Production

1913 - 1915

Medium

graphite and bodycolour on tracing paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 34.7 cm
Width: 53.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.9

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023. © Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved, DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Related Works

Rug design Rug design

Label Text

The Courtauld holds three drawings based on this design, which show the consecutive stages of the elaboration of a rug, with this sheet thought to be the third and most carefully worked out in the sequence. On the back of the sheet, the artist has noted the various specifications for the rug, including the number of knots per foot. The front contains colour annotations. Though the inscriptions imply the design may have been seen by the manufacturer, there is no indication that the rug was ever made.

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

Un Altro Tempo. Vite Nell'Arte, MaRT & Roverto & Italy, 22/09/2012-13/01/2013

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
Appendix, no. 6
ill. on p. 169

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: right centre within grey rectangle, graphite: “Plain Grey”; numerous graphite numbers in the mauve areas at right centre are mostly obscured by the bodycolour. Verso (obscured by Japanese tissue): centre, graphite: “Length 24 rows = 1 foot / Width 27 takes = 1 foot [the above two lines are bracketed by the following symbol] } rugs / Length 24 rows = 1 foot / Width 24 ” = 1 foot [the above two lines are bracketed by the following symbol] } Imperial - / Rugs any length / ” Width 4” – 6””; lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263” and traced over it in graphite on top of the Japanese tissue: “263/9”.

Collector's mark: none.

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