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A constant supply of fashionable new designs from which to create new lines was required, so patternmakers and master weavers like James Leman supplied a wide range of designs for different weavers. The album contains some of his work from the period 1706-1716, as well as five designs from the 1730s. This design was probably inserted, along with E.1861.64-1991, when the volume was rebound in the mid nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nJames Leman was born in 1688 into a weaving family of Huguenot descent. In 1702 he was apprenticed to his father, Peter, and lived with his family in Stewart Street, Spitalfields in London.","physicalDescription":"Design for woven silk from the 'Leman Album', in pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on tracing paper, in yellow ochre, red/brown, blue, purple and green, depicting ornamental and decorative motifs in panels, including vases and floral elements, all in a Chinoiserie style. There is a decorative border surrounding the panels. \n\r\nThe design is squared up in pencil for cords, with instructions in ink.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"Ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"Watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"Tracing paper","id":"AAT14161"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Painting","id":"x30598"},{"text":"Drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on tracing paper","categories":[{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"},{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AL2130","2006AL2131"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"SB6","shelf":"SH8","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"designs","id":"AAT102051"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"before 1838","earliest":null,"latest":"1837-12-31"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with Art Fund support and the National Heritage Memorial Fund","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'900 fine 2thd 18 incs / 300 cords cut by whole Reeds three 6d [comb? illegible inscription] / Top figure to be repeated with different / Color or the second'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"Ink","method":"Handwriting","position":"On the top and bottom front of the design.","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"Textual information","note":"Handwritten text in ink, at the top and bottom of the front of the design."}],"objectHistory":"This is a design from the so-called 'Leman album' which was bought from Vanners Silks Ltd. in 1991. Natalie Rothstein catalogued the designs before the album was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum. She gave each design a VS number (for Vanners Silks) in her catalogue <u>Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century</u>. The designs have been subsequently numbered by the Prints, Drawings and Paintings Department, but a concordance exists.\n\nHowever, Natalie Rothstein did not give this design a VS number but described it, instead, in the introduction to the chapter entitled 'The Vanners Silk Set 1706-1716'. She described this design as one of  'two small pages of drawings' which were inserted between E.1861.63-1991 (VS.56) and E.1861.66-1991 (VS.57) 'when the volume was rebound, probably fairly recently. These became detached from another book which is also in the possession of Vanners Silks, a book containing the working notes of an early 19th-century designer named Samuel Wilson, who had a distinguished later career culminating in his election as Lord Mayor of London in 1838. Since they fall outside the scope of the present study, they have been omitted from this catalogue.' These additional designs have subsequently been assigned the V&amp;A museum numbers E.1861.64-1991 and E.1861.65-1991 respectively. The album was rebound in the mid nineteenth century according to the Book and Paper Conservation Sections at the V&amp;A.\n\nHistorical significance: The designs collected in the album are, with the exception of some fragmentary medieval examples in Italian collections, the earliest silk designs known to exist.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design for woven silk from the 'Leman Album', pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on tracing paper, England, before 1838","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Rothstein, Natalie. <u>Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London with a Complete Catalogue with 473 Illustrations, 371 in Colour</u>. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. 351p., ill. ISBN 0500235899.","id":"AUTH324304"},"details":"p. 97","free":""}],"production":"Attribution note: Natalie Rothstein stated in her book <u>Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century</u> that this design is one of 'two small pages of drawings [which] have been inserted between drawings 57 and 58 [in actual fact it is drawings VS.56 [E.1861.63-1991] and VS.57 [E.1861.66-1991], when the volume was rebound, probably fairly recently [in the mid nineteenth century]. These became detached from another book which is also in the possession of Vanners Silks, a book containing the working notes of an early 19th-century designer named Samuel Wilson, who had a distinguished later career culminating in his election as Lord Mayor of London in 1838. Since they fall outside the scope of the present study, they have been omitted from this catalogue.' \n\nThese designs have been assigned the V&amp;A museum numbers E.1861.64-1991 and E.1861.65-1991 respectively.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.1861:65-1991"],"accessionNumberNum":"1861","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1991,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-09","recordCreationDate":"2002-05-03","availableToBook":false}}