Bachelor’s Button wallpaper

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Date: c. 1930s
Dimensions: 16.4 x 12.2
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: P845
Sitter: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942

The artist Arthur Heygate mackmurdo photographed seated in a garden, wearing an artist’s smock. In his 1968 work, Studies in art, architecture, and design, the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner recalls a past meeting with A.H. Mackmurdo (1851-1942) age 86: ‘He walked with me and talked of his economic conceits, his light blue eyes glittering, his wavy white hair blown by a breeze, a black coat slipped on over his butcher-blue blouse or blue shirt – the kind of blue blouse that William Morris wore, and which Voysey wore. The shirt being in this case- as in other cases- a profession of faith.’

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Date: c. 1899-1902
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J561iv
Artist: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Credit notes: Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum, whom presented by Dr. Robert Steele

This lecture note dates from May Morris’s time teaching embroidery at Birmingham Municipal School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. The notes and sketches set out her plans for practical lessons, covering design, technique and materials.

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Date: c. 1899-1902
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J561xiii
Artist: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Credit notes: Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum, whom presented by Dr. Robert Steele

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Date: c. 1899-1902
Object Type: archival
Material: pen on paper
Technique: hand-written
Catalogue number: J561xii
Artist: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Credit notes: Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum, whom presented by Dr. Robert Steele

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Date: October 1879
Dimensions: 10.1 x 14.6
Object Type: photograph
Catalogue number: P734
Sitter: Morris (née Burden) | Jane | 1839 | 1914
Photographer: Robert Faulkner & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Charles Bramley

These images are proof photographs of Jane Morris (née Burden) taken in October 1879 by Robert Faulkner & Co. at their studio in Baker Street, London.

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