drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1962,0809.2.9
- Description
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Design for ‘The Bluebird Brooch’ of enamelled gold set with a cabochon garnet; in the form of a bird pecking at berries on an olive tree, with a pendant crystal hanging beneath and jewel held by the claw at base of design. 1899
Graphite and pen touched with gold, with watercolour and bodycolour
- Production date
- 1899
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 millimetres (drawing)
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Width: 60 millimetres (drawing)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of four drawings in the album relating to a brooch designed for Edith Emma Cooper, which is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. For further information regarding its production see 1962,0809.2.7 (which is the first drawing in the album for the brooch).
This drawing sits together on the same album leaf as 1962,0809.2.10.
From an album of fifty eight drawings by Charles Ricketts. For full description and comment, see 1962,0809.2.1 (which is the first image in the album).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1962
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1962,0809.2.9