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Townsend textile design
Method
sketch
Year

1898

Dimensions

24.3

×

22.8

cm

This design in pencil and watercolor for a woven double cloth is partly based on a Persian motif, hence the name `Omar' (probably after the 11th century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, whose work was popular in Britain in the later 19th century), but it also has some of the characteristics of British Art Nouveau. Yet Charles H. Townsend, as a member of the Arts & Crafts movement, would have rejected any connection between his work and continental Art Nouveau.

Sources
north_east v & a museum in london
Method → sketch
Method sketch north_east
Period around 1898
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