EX LIBRIS DESIGN: WOMAN IN A PLAID DRESS.

An original ink drawing of a woman in a full-skirted, tiered plaid dress reaching for a book on a shelf, created as a design for a bookplate. "Ex libris" is written on the shelf, with space for a name. Signed on the bottom right corner. The drawing has been cut out along the border and affixed to a sheet of paper which has then been window mounted and framed. The artwork measures 11 cm x 17.5 cm and the frame measures 28.5 cm x 34.5 cm. In very good condition, with a few small spots to the sheet of paper that the drawing has been tipped on to, the drawing itself remaining unaffected.

A beautiful drawing by the Scottish artist Annie French (1872-1965), featuring her classic subjects of romantically dressed women and detailed patterns. French attended and later taught at the Glasgow School of Art alongside her contemporaries Margaret and Frances MacDonald and Jessie M. King at a time when Scottish art and design was enjoying a period of particular innovation and renown. The Glasgow School's distinctive collective style helped to shape the aesthetics of the British Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond.