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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Decorated border design for William Morris, "Well at the World's End", published in 1896 by the Kelmscott Press

William Morris
1834-1896

Decorated border design for William Morris, "Well at the World's End", published in 1896 by the Kelmscott Press

1890s
Full sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 13/16 inches (285 x 199 mm); design area: 10 5/8 x 7 7/16 inches (269 x 189 mm)
Pen and black ink, brush and black wash, white tempera on paper.
1976.51

Gift of Patrick Ferry.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in Morris's hand in pencil in central area within decorated border, "2nd 1st (cancelled) border of Well / Keates".
Associated names
Ferry, Patrick J., former owner.
Morris, William, 1834-1896. Well at the world's end.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 278.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department