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According to Roussel, he did this to create \"a harmony of colour, each proof so presented being the result sometimes of as many as twenty four or even a greater number of printings.\" \r\n\r\nThis design was one of two used in a set of nine prints of mounted and framed prints  exhibited for the first time at the Goupil Gallery in 1899. The V&A holds the only known surviving complete framed set, object numbers E.1471-1991 to E.1479-1991 inclusive. They came from 'a house in Parson's Green', which is where Roussel lived, and are likely to have been the set in his house.\r\n\r\nRoussel was born in Britanny and educated in Paris. In 1874 he moved to England. It was at Whistler's suggestion that he took up etching, developing the master's highly personal and private vision into public decorative works intended for the domestic interior. His approach to colour printing was revolutionary and fundamental to printing in colours in the twentieth century. In 1910 he became the first President of the Society of Graver Printers in Colour. ","physicalDescription":"Frame design consisting of a repeating stylized pattern of lotus flowers and leaves and geometric shapes. Printed in rose, turquoise and beige.\r\n\r\nThis is one of four proofs, and examples of the finished frames also exist in different colours in the V&amp;A's collection, see 'Associated object' section in this catalogue record for object numbers.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Theodore Roussel","id":"A16307"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"},{"text":"aquatint","id":"AAT53242"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Colour etching, aquatint and softground","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Frames","id":"THES48949"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"ES","shelf":"136","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"prints","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"designed and made","id":"x39722"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1897-1899","earliest":"1897-01-01","latest":"1899-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.1480-1991","id":"O194968"},"association":"Version"},{"object":{"text":"E.1481-1991","id":"O194969"},"association":"Version"},{"object":{"text":"E.1482-1991","id":"O194970"},"association":"Version"},{"object":{"text":"E.1471-1991","id":"O194959"},"association":"Frame"},{"object":{"text":"E.1473-1991","id":"O194961"},"association":"Frame"},{"object":{"text":"E.1475-1991","id":"O194963"},"association":"Frame"},{"object":{"text":"E.1479-1991","id":"O194967"},"association":"Frame"}],"creditLine":"Purchased with Art Fund support, the Vallentin Trust and the Friends of the V&A","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"126","unit":"mm","qualifier":"max","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"545","unit":"mm","qualifier":"max","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Jan 5th","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed in pencil"}],"objectHistory":"R.P. 90/2347.\r\nImpressions of E.1471-1479-1991 and proofs of the Lotus and Stag and Flower pattern frames were exhibited at London, Goupil and Co., <u>Original Etchings Printed in Colours by Theodore Roussel</u> July 1899. The nine prints E.1471-1479-1991 is the only known set of these prints in their colour frames and is the set referred to on page 18 of Hausberg's catalogue raisonné.\r\nReported to have come from a house in Parsons Green where the artist had a house.\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Proof of frame design by the artist Theodore Roussel. Etching, aquatint and softground. Lotus pattern, top and bottom segments; 1897-1899.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mackay, A.E. <u>The Etchings of Theodore Roussel. A Catalogue Raisonné of Plates, States and Impressions Printed in Monochrome and Colour from Original Etchings in Aquafort and Drypoint etc. With the Artist's Notes on Printing in Colour and Formulae of Tones</u>. Unpublished, see registered papers 90/2347. 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