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| Title | Quotation from the ´Pageant of summer´ | |
| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Calligrapher | Joan Pilsbury and Wendy Westover | |
| Description | Double opening, of a quotation from 'Pageant of summer' by Richard Jefferies, written in black ink, with illumination in watercolour paint, and decorated with raised and burnished gold on vellum. The card folder has internal leaves of paper, and the whole has a vellum binding, decorated with foliage in gold. | |
| Id Number Current Accession | C.87.30 | |
| Subject | calligraphy, double opening, writing, plants | |
| Measurements | 33.5 x 22 centimetres | |
| Material | ink on vellum | |
| Other Materials | raised and burnished gold, paper, card, vellum | |
| Ink | black | |
| History | One of several pieces of work on which Joan Pilsbury and Wendy Westover have collaborated. | |
| Literary Source | 'As the Wind' by Richard Jefferies | |
| Rights Owner | Managed by the Crafts Study Centre. | |
| Style Period Period | 1960s | |
| Technique | hand-lettering | |
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