{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1242407"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1242407/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2023NP9673/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2023NP9673/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2023NP9673","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1242407/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1242407","accessionNumber":"E.10-2012","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[{"title":"Ollie and Granny Elsie's Hat","type":""}],"summaryDescription":"This drawing is an illustration for the book <i>Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day</i> by Amy de la Haye and illustrated by Emily Sutton. The book is set in the Victoria and Albert Museum and  was published in 2011.  It captures the moment when Clara's brother Ollie, after skate boarding into the room and through Clara's collection of buttons, decides to pull Granny Elsie's hat from the top of a bookcase.\r\n\r\nEmily Sutton was born in Yorkshire and graduated with a B.A.(Hons.) in Illustration from Edinburgh College of  Art in 2008. She specialises in illustration of children's books and draws her inspiration from 20th century illustrators and the tradition of  folk art.","physicalDescription":"A domestic interior with a girl wearing a red jacket and a green/blue skirt looking worried whilst watching a boy pulling a large straw hat off the top of a book case. The carpet is covered in assorted buttons, a fallen over standard lamp and a skate board.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Emily Sutton","id":"AUTH316793"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pen","id":"x47746"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"bodycolour","id":"x34671"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pen, ink and bodycolour on paper","categories":[{"text":"Illustration","id":"THES48938"},{"text":"Children & Childhood","id":"THES48980"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"},{"text":"Hats & headwear","id":"THES48943"},{"text":"Woman Artist","id":"THES387590"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2023NP9673"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"WD","shelf":"216","box":"E"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2011","earliest":"2011-01-01","latest":"2011-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by the artist","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"346","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"515","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"Emily Sutton was born in Yorkshire and graduated with a B.A (Hons.) in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. She also studied at York College and Rhode Island School of Design. The artist specialises in illustration of children's books and draws her inspiration from such 20th century illustrators such as Edward Bawden (1903- 1989) and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and American lithographed children's books. She typically includes in her work objects found in museums and antique shops. \r\n\r\nThis illustration is characteristic of Emily Sutton's style and technique of using strong outside line combined with pattern and colour. This image shows the moment when Clara's brother Ollie pulls down his Granny Elsie's hat from the top of a bookcase and damages it.\r\n","briefDescription":"Drawing, Illustration for 'Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day', by Amy De La Haye and Emily Sutton, British school, 2011","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Ollie has scattered Clara's buttons and knocked over the lamp. Now he seizes a huge hat from the bookcase. This extraordinary hat symbolizes the obsession which prompts Clara's fantastic journey in the V&A. ","date":{"text":"10/09/2013","earliest":"2013-09-10","latest":"2013-09-10"}}],"partNumbers":["E.10-2012"],"accessionNumberNum":"10","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2012,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2012-01-06","availableToBook":false}}