1901 Jeannie Foord Original Art Nouveau Pochoir Pine Cone Botanical Print

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An original 1901 pochoir botanical plate by British designer Jeannie Foord, published in her influential Decorative Flower Studies for the … Read more An original 1901 pochoir botanical plate by British designer Jeannie Foord, published in her influential Decorative Flower Studies for the Use of Artists, Designers, Students, and Others. Issued at the height of the Art Nouveau period, Foord’s studies were conceived not simply as botanical illustrations but as working references for artists and designers translating natural forms into decorative art.

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* Artist || Jeannie Foord
* Date || 1901
* Source || Decorative Flower Studies for the Use of Artists, Designers, Students, and Others
* Publisher || B. T. Batsford, London
* Plate || No. 36
* Medium || Original color lithograph with French stencil coloring (pochoir)
* Presentation || Loose, unmatted, and unframed

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ABOUT THE WORK

Published in London by B. T. Batsford in 1901, Decorative Flower Studies was created expressly for artists, designers, students, and others working with natural forms. The volume contained forty large color plates accompanied by detail studies and descriptive notes, positioning Foord’s work at the intersection of botanical observation, decorative design, and practical art instruction.

A contemporary review in The Studio described the newly published book as a substantial contribution to decorative flower study and specifically recorded that its forty plates were printed in color using a French stencil process, the technique now generally described as pochoir. That method gives the original plates their distinctive areas of layered, controlled color and separates them materially from ordinary mass-produced botanical book illustrations of the period.

Foord’s approach was already attracting critical attention when the book appeared. The Studio discussed the apparent relationship between her work and Japanese design while ultimately locating her drawing tradition more firmly in Northern European decorative practice and in the legacy of earlier botanical illustration. The publication proved substantial enough to be followed by a second series of decorative plant and flower studies in 1906. Plate 36 therefore belongs to Foord’s original 1901 series and survives as an original period plate from one of the more distinctive botanical design publications of the turn of the twentieth century. See less