Cut-paper basket, Great Britain,
- Title(s):
- Cut-paper basket.
- Published/Created:
- Great Britain, approximately 1820.
- Physical Description:
- 1 cut-paper basket : hand-cut paper with watercolor, stitched with silk thread ; 24 x 29 x 8 cm
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11117082
- Classification:
- Three-Dimensional Artifacts
- Notes:
- Of green leaf, bird, and flower: artists' books and the natural world, p. 51
Selected exhibitions: "'Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower': Artists' Books and the Natural World" (Yale Center for British Art, May 15 - August 10, 2014).
Likely intended for the collection of visiting cards, this hand-painted, cut-paper basket evokes a decorated ceramic fruit bowl. The unidentified creator may well have copied the flowers from a drawing manual of the sort published by Augustin Heckel. - Subject Terms:
- Baskets.Flowers.Great Britain -- Social life and customs.Visiting cards.Women in natural history.
- Form/Genre:
- Botanical illustrations.
Cut-paper works.
Watercolors. - Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.