Lot 378
HELEN ADELAIDE LAMB (1893-1981)
GLASGOW SCHOOL EMBROIDERED PANEL, CIRCA 1909
Auction: Design Since 1860 Day Two | Thurs 15th October | Lots 246 to 524
Description
coloured silks reserved on a fine linen ground, framed
Dimensions
22cm x 12.4cm (frame size 31cm x 22cm)
Footnote
Literature: The Studio - An Illustrated Magazine of Fine Applied Art, Volume 46, 1909 where a panel of the same design as the current lot is titled “Embroidered Panel by Helen A. Lamb”.
V&A Collection accession no.T.25-2019
Helen Lamb was born in Prestwick, Scotland, in 1893 and entered the Glasgow School of Art at just 15. She taught art at St Columba’s School, Kilmacolm, from 1918 to 1949. Lamb died in Dunblane in 1981.