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Design for 'Powdered' pattern wallpaper (© William Morris Gallery and Brangwyn Gift)
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© William Morris Gallery and Brangwyn Gift

Design for 'Powdered' pattern wallpaper

Artist: William Morris (1834 - 1896)

Location: William Morris Gallery and Brangwyn Gift

Date: 1874

Materials: watercolour, gouache, graphite & red crayon on paper, laid on brown paper

Dimensions: 56.8 x 54.7cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £11,500 (Total: £29,000)

Vendor: Haslam & Whiteway

Review number: 5330 (2003)

Provenance:
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co/Morris & Co; private collector, 1930s-1940; private collection, Scotland; Messrs Thomson, Roddick & Medcalf auction, 2002; Haslam & Whiteway Ltd.

Description:
The design has a relatively informal arrangement of meadow-flower sprigs, unconnected by any linking device, over the surface of the paper. The sprigs are superimposed on rhythmic coils of delicate willow boughs, each flower curving or nodding in the direction of the underlying leaves. The flowers identified include the rose, speedwell, pansy and cornflower.

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