© 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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