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Shell, dolphin and seaweed design (late 1880s)

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Date: late 1880s
Dimensions: 40.6 x 50.8
Object Type: design
Material: bodycolour on paper
Catalogue number: A106
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

The classical/Rennaisance design references of the dolphin are in contrast to the ‘organic’ intracacies of Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo’s earlier designs for the Century Guild. In the 1890s both Mackmurdo and his partner Herbert Horne evolved towards classically-inspired formalism.

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