Design for embroidery

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Date: c.1862
Object Type: design
Material: pencil and ink
Catalogue number: BLA409
Artist: Morris, William, 1834, 1896

William Morris designed this 3-tile figure for a fireplace at Sandroyd, Surrey, the house built by Philip Webb in 1861-62 for the artist Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Photographs taken before the later destruction of the firpace show the finished design was cut down and only the central section used, excluding parts of the foliage and branches on the side of this original design. The figure of Adam was accompanied by the figure of Eve next to it. Other tiles from this fireplace are also in the collection, see C175 Alceste and C214 Pomegranate tree with shield.

Details

Date: May 1903
Dimensions: 186 x 112
Object Type: design
Material: pencil and ink
Catalogue number: A1202
Designer: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Credit notes: Gift of John Brandon-Jones, 2003

This lectern was designed for Eglwys Cwymmin- Ancient Church of St. Margaret in Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. The design which was intended to be carved in oak depicts a figure of St Margaret. A letter written to Jack from Philip Webb on 29 June 1903 (see The Letters of Philip Webb, Volume 4) explains how the design was not suited to the simplicity of the building, and was therefore rejected. Webb wrote “your good design- good in itself- is, I think, not likely to look as well in the church as it does in your sketch, and I’m sure would disappoint you ever saw the made thing in the building. Webb was working on the restoration of the church.

Material: pencil and ink

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