Design for carved oak book cover for F.S. Ellis’ translation of Reynard the Fox

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Date: c.1890s
Dimensions: 19.8 x 25.5
Object Type: design
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: A523
Designer: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Credit notes: Gift of Margery Jack, 1972

This original design indicates that the table was originally intended to be decorated with different coloured wood inlay. On the present example, (G53) the pattern is the same, but painted; the painting executed by the artist’s daughter Jessie Jack, who donated the table to the gallery. Possibly made and designed as a workbox for George Jack’s wife Annie’s embroidery. When exhibited in 1899 the table was described as a ..”very entertaining little work table.., the construction of which seems somewhat frail even for feminine use, but one can forgive that, since it is painted in the gayest fashion imaginable”.

Object Type: design

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