Morris & Co Specimens of Furniture and Interior Decoration Catalogue

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Date: 1897
Dimensions: 33.6 x 23.5
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: lithograph
Catalogue number: BrP289
Designer and maker: Rothenstein, William (1872 - 1945)
Sitter: Ricketts, Charles de Sousy, 1866, 1931
Sitter: Shannon, Charles Hazelwood, 1863, 1937
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Lithograph portrait of artists Charles Ricketts (right) and Charles Shannon (right). The two artists were partners in their artistc career, as well as in their personal life. Together they founded The Dial, a magazine, which had five issues from 1889 to 1897, and the Vale Press, named after their house, The Vale, in Chelsea, London and inspired by William Morris’s The Kelmscott Press.

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Date: c. 1912
Dimensions: 27.7 x 22.7
Object Type: archival
Material: paper
Technique: lithograph
Catalogue number: J2169
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Kathleen Wells, 1957

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Date: c. 1912
Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.6
Object Type: archival
Material: paper
Technique: lithograph
Catalogue number: J2146
Credit notes: Presented by Mr Griffiths, 1968

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Date: c. 1913
Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.6
Object Type: archival
Material: paper
Technique: lithograph
Catalogue number: J2147
Credit notes: Presented by Mr Griffiths, 1968

This catalogue was published by Morris & Co. to advertise its wallpapers. The reverse has George V’s Royal Warrant, which was awarded to Morris & Co. in 1911 for services to the Coronation. Inside the pages list the wallapapers, designers and price of each paper. The latest design it lists is Brentwood, designed by J.H. Dearle in 1913.

Technique: lithograph

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