Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co took part in the 1862 Exhibition in London. In 1865 this relatively unknown firm was given the prestigious commission of designing the Green Dining Room, one of three new on-site refreshment rooms at the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). Philip Webb designed the ceiling and much of the wall decoration, with its splendid moulded frieze of hare and hounds. Webb said he was inspired by the same decoration carved on the font in Newcastle Cathedral. He was famous for his drawings of animals, and the hare reappears in his tapestry designs. This beautifully-coloured drawing shows the treatment of the upper part of one wall. The design was largely carried out, although there would be some minor changes to the colour scheme. As executed, the eggs of the egg-and-dart cornice, for instance, were gilded, and placed against a red ground; the design shows these colours used in reverse.