Design for two light window, St Andrews Church, Steyning, Sussex

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Date: c.1902
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: J1179a
Sitter: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Photographer: F.J. Scarlett & Co

This photograph depicts George Jack’s preparatory carved plaster panel for the Memorial Cottages built in 1902 at Kelmscott, Lechlade and designed by Philip Webb. The panel, which sits above the cottage doors depicts William Morris under a tree with his satchel by his leg. The panel was worked up by Jack from a pencil sketch by Philip Webb. A photograph of the final stone panel is also in the Gallery’s collection, see J1179b

Details

Date: c.1902
Object Type: photograph
Material: photograph
Catalogue number: J1179b
Sitter: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Photographer: Gardner, Fairford

This photograph depicts George Jack’s carved bas-relief panel for the Memorial Cottages built in 1902 at Kelmscott, Lechlade and designed by Philip Webb. The panel, which sits above the cottage doors, depicts William Morris under a tree with his satchel by his leg. The panel was worked up by Jack from a pencil sketch by Philip Webb. A photograph of a preparatory plaster panel is also in the Gallery’s collection, see J1179a

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Date: 1914
Object Type: design
Material: bodycolour on paper
Catalogue number: A1415
Artist: Jack, Margery (1894 - 1974)
Credit notes: Gift of John Brandon-Jones, 2006

The poster shows a selection of dolls in the uniforms of the armed and public services, along with toy animals. The ‘New Army’ of Margery and Jessie Jack’s novelty toys is also a reference to the ‘New Army’ recruited for war service by Field Marshal Lord Kitchener in the earliest phase of the First World War. As war had broken out in August, the poster, which is dated 1914, was probably drawn sometime in the autumn (September-November) months. It was designed for display at Selfridges in the shopping period leading up to Christmas.

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Date: 1873
Object Type: book
Catalogue number: K63
Author: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Publisher: Ellis and White
Owner: Oldham (née Morris), Emma (1829 - 1915)
Credit notes: Transfer from Walthamstow Central Library, 1951

This is a first edition of Love is Enough published by Ellis and White, a publisher owned by Frederick Startridge Ellis and David White. The stamped gold decoration on the cover, with the title surrounded by willow leaves, was designed by William Morris. He gave this copy to his sister, Emma Oldham and it is inscribed “Emma Oldham from her most affectionate Brother William Morris Dec. 7th 1872”.

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Object Type: book
Material: paper
Catalogue number: K2614
Author: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Author: Hyndman, Henry Mayers (1842 - 1921)
Printer: The Modern Press

This pamphlet was written by William Morris and Henry Hyndman for the Social Democratic Federation, Morris also designed the title page. Morris joined the SDF at its inaugural meeting in June 1881. He had always felt uneasy about the disparity between his comfortable lifestyle and the conditions endured by most of the British working classes. In the 1880s he began working towards overthrowing the system that enabled the rich to profit from their labour, going on marches, writing articles and lecturing all over the country.

Morris and Hyndman had a strained relationship as Morris disagreed with Hyndman’s obsession with parliamentary politics to the detriment of trade union organisation. Morris broke from the SDF in 1884 and went on to establish the Socialist League, a more radical group that sought a revolutionary overturn by the mobilised working classes.

Throughout the decade of his most strenuous political engagement, Morris’s continued to run his business. He did not see campaigning as incompatible with his design work and deeply regretted that his products were so expensive.

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