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Swirling Leaf wallpaper design (c.1880-1883)

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Date: c.1880-1883
Dimensions: 50.8 x 60.9
Object Type: design
Catalogue number: A99abc
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

This is one of Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo’s earliest working drawing for a wallpaper design. The finished wallpaper called Swirling Leaf was retailed by the Century Guild (see B27 and B30 in WMG collection for finished wallpaper). This may be the Mackmurdo-designed wallpaper which the wallpaper manufacturers Jeffrey & Co. exhibited at the Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition in Manchester in 1882.

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