A Crowned Head

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Date: 1919
Dimensions: 37.5 x 43.5
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: etching
Catalogue number: P823
Artist: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Credit notes: Gift of Richard and Eileen Smithies

This etching shows the Arrival Procession of the Festa della Madonna della Salute in front of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute at the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice. Sir Frank Brangwyn made multiple images of Venice, including two others showing the church of Santa Maria della Salute that are also in the William Morris Gallery’s Collection. The festival of Santa Maria della Salute is held every year in Venice on 21st November, and comemmorates the end of a plague that devastated Venice bewteen 1630 and 1631.

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Date: June 1890
Dimensions: 25.9 x 19.6
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: woodblock
Catalogue number: P807
Artist: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Owner: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Maker: Hooper, William Harcourt (1834 - 1912)

This woodblock printed bookplate, inscribed ‘From the Branch to its Flower’, was designed by Walter Crane and engraved by W.H. Hooper to accompany a wedding gift of books from the Hammersmith Branch of the Socialist League to May Morris. The gift was accompanied with a message signed by 30 members saying ‘You have lived among us and have worked for us with your best strength’. The bookplate’s design incorporates three ‘caps of liberty’ in each corner.

Object Type: print

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