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This has got me curious. Maybe these magazine illustrations for McCall’s and the Saturday Evening Post give us some idea of the lush colours Neysa’s Stehli silks had? #MuseumBuddy https://t.co/WIJuc9xABv
Textile & print speak to one another. This photo @NML_Muse of embroidered curtain from Frances's design for fellow designer Fritz Waerndorfer shows how the threaded lines of embroidery echo lines printed on paper, both sculpturally rise from the surface. #MuseumBuddy
Kauffman’s small (32x24cm) oil on metal painting ‘Fame Decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb’ @burghleyhouse also proved a popular inspiration for needle painting. This 1782 etching and stippling by Bartolozzi @britishmuseum disseminated the image widely.
A reproduced painting was not seen as a copy, but a meaningful work in its own right. Widely shared prints of Kauffman’s work inspired women to create their own interpretations. #museumbuddy
It was the reproduction of her most famous paintings by printmaker Francesco Bartolozzi that Kauffman’s work spread throughout Europe and the US. His 1788 etching of Kauffman’s Cornelia (@britishmuseum) was a sensation.
Here is one last compare to end our #MuseumBuddy today from Merian’s 'New Book of Flowers' (1680) & an embroidery pattern from Helm (c. 1725) @V_and_A
We'll be back tomorrow to explore needle paintings in the 18th & 19th c. featuring Angelica Kauffman - get excited!
Merian’s works were valued for their skilled depiction of bugs & flowers as well as their aesthetic, showing the versatility of her art & science to work as designs & serious science. Not sure many scientists can claim their work impacted decorative art so profoundly?#museumbuddy
And another example of embroidered pocket (@colonialwmsburg) found by @Isabellarosner 's expert eyes that shows (maybe?) Merian’s influence. I love the detail of the vase at the bottom - it is this tiny, stable thing in a swarm of huge flowers.
We can compare Merian’s print to the floral embroidery on this c.1700 stomacher @metmuseum - thanks to my #museumbuddy @IsabellaRosner for finding this gorgeous example. I love how the spacing (maybe?) mimics the spacing on the page of Merian’s print.
This engraving from her 1680 ‘New Book of Flowers’ was promoted for botanical study, but Merian understood how it could & would be used as a pattern book if she made the prints pattern-like, transferable to textile. #museumbuddy