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Title:
Festival Pattern Group Wallpaper, 1951
Object name(s):
wallpaper sample; wallpaper sample
Brief description:
Sample in pink, yellow and black of Insulin 8.25 wallpaper pattern, crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin, designed by Robert Sevant, made by John Line and Sons Ltd. Pattern in production in 1951 and used in the cinema foyer at the Exhibition of Science. Shown in the Land Travelling Exhibition. From a collection of 83 samples designed for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Collection:
Science Museum Group
Credit line:
Gift of Dr. Helen Dick Megaw
Dimension:
height
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
20 7/8
Dimension:
height
Dimension measurement unit:
mm
Dimension value:
531
Dimension:
width
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
22 1/4
Dimension:
width
Dimension measurement unit:
mm
Dimension value:
565
Material:
paper
Object name:
wallpaper sample; wallpaper sample
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
1951
Date - latest:
1951
Object production date:
Date - association:
made
Date - earliest / single:
1951
Date - latest:
1951
Object production person:
John Line and Sons Limited; Sevant, Robert
Object production place:
Southall, Ealing, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Other number:
1976-644/51
Other number type:
accession number
Responsible department/section:
SCM - Experimental Chemistry

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4beaf748-3802-3be2-8d91-64fc52d2b8c5

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4beaf748-3802-3be2-8d91-64fc52d2b8c5, Science Museum Group, CC BY

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