Design for Acanthus Textile

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Dimensions: 22.86 x 13.97
Object Type: design
Material: watercolour
Catalogue number: A270
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Constance MacQueen, 1956

This abundant mirrored design by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo is likely for a textile or wallpaper, and demonstrates the designer’s skill and affinity for capturing flowing natural forms. It includes scrolling green acanthus leaves, which were also a common motif found in many of William Morris’s designs.

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Date: c.1890
Dimensions: 51 x 51
Object Type: textile
Material: silk
Technique: embroidery
Catalogue number: F435
Maker: Morris | May | 1862 | 1938
Owner: Carruthers Tozer, Amy (1896 - 1938)
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: Presented by Diana Hillman, 2014.

Rose Wreath was designed by William Morris and this example embroidered by May Morris as a cushion cover for her friend Amy Carruthers Tozer. The design was exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1890.

Further examples of the design include a cushion worked by American heiress Annie May Hegeman, now in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (1941.71.1)

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