Specimen of 'Compton' wallpaper, a floral and foliage pattern with pink and blue flowers, with a dark-blue ground; Colour woodblock print, on paper; William Morris; Commissioned by Laurence Hodson for his house, 'Compton'; Part of 'Volume 2', a pattern book containing 27 Morris & Co. patterns from 1882-96 (E.530-608-1919); England; 1896.

Specimen of 'Compton' wallpaper, a floral and foliage pattern with pink and blue flowers, with a dark-blue ground; Colour woodblock print, on paper; Inscribed on the back in ink with title, number and price.
Part of 'Volume 2', a pattern book containing 25 Morris & Co. patterns from 1882-96 (E.530-608-1919); England; 1875.

Given by Morris & Co.

Given by Morris & Co.
Morris' last design, commissioned by Laurence Hodson for his house, 'Compton', outside Wolverhampton, and executed both as a wallpaper and as a printed textile.

While this design has been widely claimed (including by May Morris) to be William Morris's last design, Linda Parry uncovered evidence in her 1995 book 'William Morris Textiles' (p. 56) that Henry Dearle was the designer:

'Compton designed as a wallpaper and printed on to fabrics using the same blocks, has for many years been mistakenly considered to be Morris's last repeating design (if not his finest) which shows the considerable development of Dearle's talents. His designs for the 1890s are considerably tighter in format than those seen before and in four particularly successful designs, Trail, Daffodil, Florence and Graveney, a development of the diagonal bias in Morris's later work can be seen...'

Within pattern book Volume 2 (1882-96).
Morris' last design, commissioned by Laurence Hodson for his house, 'Compton', outside Wolverhampton, and executed both as a wallpaper and as a printed textile.

E.607-1919