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Victoria and Albert Museum
London
Title
Design for Christina of Sweden plate
Date
1932-1933
Medium
paper
Accession number
E.1052-1992
Acquisition method
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Design for a plate with a portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden. 1932-3 Pencil and watercolour Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark, commissioned a large dinner service to be decorated by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The theme was `Famous Women' and ranged from Sappho to Greta Garbo. Vanessa Bell sketched her first rough ideas for this portrait in pencil, still visible in places, before filling in and developing the design with bold strokes of watercolour. Most of the preliminary designs were carried out on round scraps of paper or card and in some cases, on paper plates. E.1052-1992
Work type
Watercolour
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, Greater London SW7 2RL England
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