| Level | Item |
| Ref No | ST/9/2 |
| Alt Ref No | T109 |
| Title | Large Wooden Paint Box |
| Date | Early 20th century |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Name of Creator | James Newman |
| Description | Large square wooden box designed to contain art materials. The top layer of the box includes twenty-four blocks of watercolour paint arranged in a wooden tray with labelled colours, a small white porcelain palette with three recesses for mixing paint (labelled James Newman on bottom), a circular compartment to stand a small jar of water in, and a compartment across the front of the box containing a brush with a wrapped handle, two pencils and a palette knife.
Two additional compartments can be found, underneath the palette, and underneath the tray of paints. In both cases, the wooden shelf can be removed using tags of ribbon at either end. The former compartment is empty, the latter (underneath the paints) contains two wooden shelves, each one with three circular insets on the shelf to support white porcelain dishes (six in total) for mixing paint.
On the outside of the bottom of the box there is a layer of green felt. |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | This wooden box of paints originally held the Small Box Set of Paints held by University of Surrey. Reference Code: ST/9/3 |
| Physical Description | Good condition apart from some small scratches and indentations. Brush, pencils and palette knife are worn. |
| Format | Object |
| Exhibitions | Kunstenaar in oorlogstijd. E.H. Shepard, tekenaar van Winnie-the-Pooh (Artist in wartime. E.H. Shepard, draughtsman of Winnie -the-Pooh) exhibition at Museum Huis Doorn in the Netherlands, August to December 2017. |