Picture
Object name
Maker
Date made
1970
Place made
Description
Picture of a peacock in blue, pink, and gold fabric and lace, made by Thomasina Beck in 1970.
Content description
Stylised peacock made of layers of fabric, lace, and thread. The fabric collage sits on a brown vertically striped silk ground. The peacock itself is made from a variety of precisely cut printed cotton fabrics. Its neck, back, wings, and tail are embellished with gold machine-made lace and wool threads that have been abraded in order to make them fuzzy. The peacock's body is embellished with small panels of pink gauze to give it a pink tinge. Its neck is decorated with silver sequins and its eye is made from a white shell fastened down with gold thread. The feathers on its head are made of black silk embellished with black wool threads worked in stem stitch. These threads, too, have been purposefully made fuzzy. At the end of these feathers are gold threads and small semi-translucent beads.
This peacock is one of two similar peacocks produced by Thomasina Beck in 1970. Though the peacocks are of a similar shape and involve some similar materials, they differ in their colours, stitches, and embellishment.
This peacock is one of two similar peacocks produced by Thomasina Beck in 1970. Though the peacocks are of a similar shape and involve some similar materials, they differ in their colours, stitches, and embellishment.
Dimensions
width: 39.5cm
height: 51cm
height: 51cm
Materials
Stitches
Motifs
Credit line
Gift of Thomasina Beck, 2015.
Catalogue number
COL.2015.4
Other numbers
RSN 2075
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