Design for 'Powdered' pattern wallpaper

William Morris (1834 - 1896)

William Morris Gallery and Brangwyn Gift

1874

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.

• Medium: watercolour, gouache, graphite & red crayon on paper, laid on brown paper
• Dimensions: 56.8 x 54.7cm
• Art Fund Grant: £11500 ( Total: £29,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2003
• Vendor: Haslam & Whiteway

Provenance

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

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