Landscape with Trees

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Date: January 1864
Dimensions: 175.3 x 58.4
Object Type: design
Material: sepia wash and pencil on paper
Catalogue number: BLA433
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Attributed designer: Morris & Co.

Large stained glass cartoon in sepia depicting Christ attended by lamenting angels, two above holding sun and moon inscribed ‘SOL’ and ‘LUNA’. The figures were drawn by Edward Burne-Jones with decorative foliage probably completed by the Morris workshop. The cartoon is inscribed with instructions for completion for Amington Church (St. Editha) in Staffordshire. The church was built in 1864 by the Arts and Crafts architect George Edmund Street. Burne-Jones designed two of the church’s windows, the Crucifixion was designed in January 1864 and was the central window of the three chancel windows.

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Date: 1886
Object Type: drawing
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: D231
Artist: Solomon, Simeon, 1840, 1905
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Martha Lugg Wooldridge, 1955

This portrait shows the head of a youth, representing Love in sleep. The portrait recalls Simeon Solomon’s mystical prose piece called Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep which he published privately in 1871. The narrative, which was of central importance to the artist’s career, was based on the platonic theme of the fulfillment of the soul through earthly love.

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Date: designed 1877, printed before 1940
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B167a
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Jeffrey & Co.
Retailer: Morris & Co.

William Morris designed this wallpaper in 1877. The pattern combines apples and scrolling acanthus leaves against a background of foliage. The wallpaper required three wood-blocks with a repeat size of 30.5 x 26.7 cm. The wallpaper was printed by Jeffrey & Co., who printed all Morris & Co.’s wallpapers. On the reverse the pattern colourway number ‘Apple 97’ is written in blue crayon, although this was the identifying number for the blue colouway, green was no.98 and the brown/pink colourway no.99.

May Morris used Apple to decorate her workroom at her in Hammersmith Terrace.

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Date: c.1909 - 1910
Dimensions: 97.2 x 43.8 x 45.7
Object Type: furniture
Material: oak and rush seat
Catalogue number: G68b
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Rhoda Wells, 1980.

One of four with G67, G69, G70. A sample of the chair is illustrated in the Morris & Company’s 1910/11 catalogue ‘Specimens of Upholstered Furniture’ no. 192 which was available in green or brown stain, priced at 14/- (=70 pence) with matching armchair no. 191, priced at 23/- (=£1.30p). The design is adapted from a traditional country type and is close to some of the furniture made by Ernest Gimson, such as G56. The chairs were apparently re-rushed c. 1970 by the Workshops for the Blind.

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Date: designed 1888-89, printed c.1950
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B165
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd

William Morris designed Borage Ceiling wallpaper between 1888-1889. As the name suggests, the paper was intended to decorate interior ceilings and forms a square repeat of 50.8 x 50.8 cm.

This version was printed around 1950, using original Morris & Co. blocks by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., who acquired the blocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940. It is stamped down the right edge: ‘BORAGE CEILING PAPER’ and ‘MORRIS & Co’.

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Date: designed 1862, printed c.1950
Dimensions: 54.6
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B162
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd

William Morris designed Fruit (also referred to as Pomegranate) in 1862 and it is one of his earliest designs for wallpaper. The pattern is formed of pomegranates, oranges and limes surrounded by foliage and flowers. The original design is in the colection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.299-2009) and included olive branches which were removed in the finished wallpaper. Morris first tried printing wallpaper at his studio in Red Lion Square in oil colours from etched zinc blocks. Unsuccessful, he ordered traditional pearwood printing blocks to be cut for ‘Fruit’ and production was then subcontracted out to Jeffrey & Co. of Islington, which specialised in the production of hand-printed wallpapers and continued to print the firm’s wallpapers.

Morris & Co. originally produced the paper in cream and blue colourways, a black colourway appeared around 1917. This version was printed by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., who acquired the original wallpaper printing blocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940.

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Date: designed 1862, printed c.1950
Dimensions: 54.6
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B161
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd

William Morris designed Fruit (also referred to as Pomegranate) in 1862 and it is one of his earliest designs for wallpaper. The pattern is formed of pomegranates, oranges and limes surrounded by foliage and flowers. The original design is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.299-2009) and included olive branches which were removed in the finished wallpaper. Morris first tried printing wallpaper at his studio in Red Lion Square in oil colours from etched zinc blocks. Unsuccessful, he ordered traditional pearwood printing blocks to be cut for ‘Fruit’ and production was then subcontracted out to Jeffrey & Co. of Islington, which specialised in the production of hand-printed wallpapers and continued to print the firm’s wallpapers.

Morris & Co. originally produced the paper in cream and blue colourways, and this black colourway appeared later around 1917. This version was printed by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., who acquired the original wallpaper printing blocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940. The glazed black background was produced by Sanderson for the American marked (see. Wallpapers at Temple Newsam 1635 to the Present)

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Date: designed 1862
Object Type: wallpaper
Catalogue number: B9c
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd
Credit notes: Presented by Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd, 1950

William Morris designed Fruit (also referred to as Pomegranate) in 1862 and it is one of his earliest designs for wallpaper. The pattern is formed of pomegranates, oranges and lemons surrounded by foliage and flowers. The original design is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.299-2009) and included olive branches which were removed in the finished wallpaper. Morris first tried printing wallpaper at his studio in Red Lion Square in oil colours from etched zinc blocks. Unsuccessful he ordered traditional pearwood printing blocks to be cut for ‘Fruit’ and production was then subcontracted out to Jeffrey & Co. of Islington, which specialised in the production of hand-printed wallpapers and continued to print the firm’s wallpapers.

This version was manufactured c.1950 by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons, the firm acquired the original woodblocks from Morris & co. when they closed in 1940.

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Date: designed c.1887, printed before 1917
Dimensions: 38.1 x 53.3
Object Type: wallpaper
Catalogue number: B160
Designer: Dearle, John Henry (1859 - 1932)
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Manufacturer: Jeffrey & Co.

‘Iris’ was designed by John Henry Dearle in 1887 and was his first wallpaper design for Morris & Co. It features blue and pink iris flowers, marigolds and small birds against a background of hawthorn. The rendering of the bird’s feathers is very similar to the birds in William Morris’s earlier textile design ‘Bird and Anemone’ (1882). The wallpaper was produced in at least three colourways; this example, a white background and a dark turquoise background. This example is a loose page from a Morris & Co. sample book, used by customers in the shop to select wallpaper patterns and colourways.

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Date: designed 1885, printed before 1990
Dimensions: 53.2
Object Type: wallpaper
Catalogue number: B135a
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd
Credit notes: Presented by Miss H. Brooks, 1991

Garden Tulip was designed by William Morris in 1885. The pattern consists of vertical ribbons of tulip stems meandering over a background of small foliage and flowers. The pattern was also used on printed cotton and linen under the name ‘Medway’. This version of the wallpaper was printed by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., who acquired the original wallpaper woodblocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940.

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