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Stylized Floral Design for Wallpaper

William Morris
1834-1896

Stylized Floral Design for Wallpaper

20 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (517 x 342 mm)
Graphite pencil, black ink, with white opaque watercolor over traced design, on wove paper which has been given alternating black and red vertical guide lines 2 5/8 inches apart, beginning 1 5/8 inches from left edge.
1975.56

Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and black ink at top left between two black guide lines, " 5 1/4, 1/4 size of Paper size "; in pencil at bottom center by Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, "Design by William Morris / Sidney Cockerell".
Associated names
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962, former owner.
Crawford, John M., former owner.
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