Grant Silk Woven Portrait - go250: G. A. Lewis

by Geoffrey Godden:
Goddden does not record this title.

Other comments:
There is no weavers name anywhere on this portrait, and it is attributed to GRANT only because Grant was known to have produced a picture of ASHFORD CHURCH for this Exhibition, and there is no evidence anyone else wove for the exhibition.

Mr Lewis was clearly of some significance to either the Exhibition or the town of Ashford, although at this time I have no idea which or why.

The portrait has a label on the reverse, saying the portrait was " MANUFACTURED EXPRESSLY FOR LEWIS & HYLAND " - presumably the same LEWIS of the portrait:

printed label of the reverse of this portrait

Reference Number:-	Godden Number:-	Sprake Number:-
go 250	not recorded	Sprake did not record any Grants

Words:	Woven on Silk:- Printed at bottom of card:- WOVEN IN PURE SILK G. A. LEWIS. SOUVENIR OF THE TRADES' & INVENTIONS' EXHIBITION, ASHFORD, 1894
Size:	Card-mount: cm deep by cm wide silk: cm high by cm wide
Comments:	by Geoffrey Godden: Goddden does not record this title. Other comments: There is no weavers name anywhere on this portrait, and it is attributed to GRANT only because Grant was known to have produced a picture of ASHFORD CHURCH for this Exhibition, and there is no evidence anyone else wove for the exhibition. Mr Lewis was clearly of some significance to either the Exhibition or the town of Ashford, although at this time I have no idea which or why. The portrait has a label on the reverse, saying the portrait was " MANUFACTURED EXPRESSLY FOR LEWIS & HYLAND " - presumably the same LEWIS of the portrait:

G. A. Lewis

Souvenir of the Trades' & Inventions' Exhibition, Ashford, 1894