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Design for Artichoke, Birds and Squirrels textile (early 1880s)

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Date: early 1880s
Dimensions: 50.8 x 50.8
Object Type: design
Material: bodycolour
Catalogue number: A105
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

This watercolour by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo was intended as a large scale design for a textile, but was never put into production. The design features an artichoke plant with birds and squirrels feeding from the heads of the flowering globe artichoke. Squirrels were a favourite animal for Mackmurdo, who also applied them throughout his work, including the textile Bramble and Squirrel.

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