Design for the 'Kelmscott' bedspread: kingfisher motif with colour annotations
Details
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Title
Design for the 'Kelmscott' bedspread: kingfisher motif with colour annotations
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Artist/maker
May Morris (1862 - 1938) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
1910 -
Material and technique
graphite and black ink, pounced with black chalk, on tracing paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
max. 31 x 15 cm irregular (height x width)
max. 29 x 10 cm irregular (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1941.
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Museum location
Western Art Print Room
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1941.108.59
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Further reading
Palmer, Caroline, ‘Picking up the thread: exploring the designs of May Morris in the Ashmolean Museum’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society number 42, (2018), illus. p. 128 fig. 10
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