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Daisy

Wallpaper Sample
ca. 1868-70 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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; Inscribed on the back in ink with title, number etc.
Part of a pattern book containing 23 Morris & Co. patterns (E.3698-3704, 3706-3718, 3720-3722-1927).


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDaisy (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Colour woodblock print on paper
Brief description
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.; Part of a pattern book of 23 Morris & Co. patterns (E.3698-3704, 3706-3718, 3720-3722-1927); England; 1865-75.
Physical description
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; Inscribed on the back in ink with title, number etc.
Part of a pattern book containing 23 Morris & Co. patterns (E.3698-3704, 3706-3718, 3720-3722-1927).
Dimensions
  • Average size of pattern book contents ( e.3698 3704, 3706 3718, 3720 3722 1927) height: 54.6cm
  • Average size of pattern book contents ( e.3698 3704, 3706 3718, 3720 3722 1927) width: 77.5cm
Dimensions from: Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
(Inscribed on the back in ink with title, number etc.)
Credit line
Bequeathed by J. R. Holliday
Object history
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).
Production
The second paper William Morris designed, but the first to be issued (1864).
Part of a pattern book containing 23 Morris & Co. patterns (E.3698-3704, 3706-3718, 3720-3722-1927).
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
  • Parry, Linda, ed. William Morris London : Philip Wilson in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 9 May-1 Sept. 1996, p.206.
  • P. 68 Margot Th. Brandlhuber and Michael Buhrs, eds. In the temple of the self : the artist's residence as a total work of art : Europe und America 1800-1948. Munich: Villa Stuck, 2013. ISBN: 9783775735933.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927, London: Board of Education, 1928
Collection
Accession number
E.3718-1927

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Record createdJune 18, 2009
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