Through The Looking Glass (B5)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Title
Through The Looking Glass
Made in
Guildford
Date
1973
Description
Red and silver leather bound book with figure of Alice on front and back in linen painted with watercolour, padded and embroidered. Contained in a box lined with blue velvet and covered in marbled paper with red leather spine.
Materials and techniques
Bound in dark red oasis inlaid with silver kid. Figure of Alice in linen painted with watercolour, padded and embroidered and set into recessed boards. She steps over a strip of marbled paper denoting the mantle-piece. Contained in a drop back box covered with marble paper; dark red oasis spine with the title in gold tooling; lined with blue velvet.
Dimensions
height (object): 3.2cm
length (object): 20.5cm
width (object): 16cm
height (box): 7cm
length (box): 22.3cm
width (box): 19cm
Object number
B5
Category
References
Credit
Commissioned by the Crafts Advisory Committee (precursor to the Crafts Council) on the occasion of`The Craftsman's Art' exhibition at the V&A, 1973.
