Specimen of 'Daisy' wallpaper, a design featuring a variety of plants with white, red and yellow flowers, on a pale ground with green flecks suggestive of grass; The flat simple frontal motif was adapted from a tapestry shown in an illuminated manuscript at the British Museum; Block-printed in distemper colours, on paper; The second paper William Morris designed, but the first to be issued (1864); Published by Morris & Co.; Printed by Jeffrey & Co.; England; 1864.

Specimen of 'Daisy' wallpaper, a design featuring a variety of plants with white, red and yellow flowers, on a pale ground with green flecks suggestive of grass; Block-printed in distemper colours, on paper.

Given by Sydney Vacher

This was the first wallpaper designed by William Morris to be put into production. The source of the flat simple frontal motif of the pattern can be seen in a wall hanging illustrated in a fifteenth-century version of Froissart’s Chronicles, shown in an illuminated manuscript at the British Museum (BL Ms 4380, fol. 1).

The second paper William Morris designed, but the first to be issued (1864).

E.2222-1913