Archangels Joshua / Gideon and Uriel

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Date: c.1884
Dimensions: 91.4 x 81.3
Object Type: textile
Technique: block-printed
Catalogue number: F79
Designer: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864, 1916
Retailer: Century Guild
Manufacturer: Simpson & Godlee
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

This design is one of the most iconic designs of the Century Guild. Known as ‘Angel with Trumpet’ or ‘Praise of the Soul’, it was designed by Herbert Horne and exhibited at a number of exhibitions for the Century Guild. Not all contemporary critics were impressed, one reviewer of the Manchester Royal Jubilee exhibition in the Journal of Decorative Art (Nov. 1887) described it as ‘at the best a very weak effort’. Nevertheless it is now seen as exemplifying the Guild’s swirling designs that preempted the Art Nouveau era. As well as a printed cotton it was also produced as a velveteen (see F40).

Details

Date: c.1884
Dimensions: 82.6 x 81.3
Object Type: textile
Technique: block-printed
Catalogue number: F78
Designer: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864, 1916
Retailer: Century Guild
Manufacturer: Simpson & Godlee
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: c.1884
Dimensions: 82.6 x 81.3
Object Type: textile
Technique: block-printed
Catalogue number: F77
Designer: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864, 1916
Retailer: Century Guild
Manufacturer: Simpson & Godlee
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: c.1863
Dimensions: 14.5 x 10.7
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: P459
Designer and maker: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Printer: Dalziel Bros
Credit notes: Presented by David Gould, Esq, 1954

This wood engraving by Edward Burne-Jones appeared in the May, 1863 issue of the magazine Good Words accompanying a poem called Summer Snow:

“Soft falls the summer snow,
On the springing grass drops light,
Not like that which long ago
Fell so deadly cold and white;
This wears the Rose’s flush,
Faint, ere bloom hath quite foregone her,
Soft as maiden’s timid blush,
With the looks she loves upon her.”

Another engraving also appeared in the May issue of Good Words by T S Morten called “An Orphan’s Family Christmas” showing the figure of a young girl leaning against a mantelpiece of a fire, bearing a strong similarity to this Burne-Jones illustration. It is also possible that Burne-Jones may have had an engraving by George du Maurier in mind when he designed the illustration for Good Words; entitled ‘Non Satis’ it appeared in ‘Once a Week’ in 1860 and shows a woman in a long dress standing by a trellis covered with flowers, stooping slightly to pluck a rose from a bush beside her.

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