After Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, By John Henry Dearle, After William Morris, By Morris & Co.
Watercolour colour scheme for the Flora Tapestry, 1885
Watercolor, ink wash, with opaque watercolor, and black ink, over graphite on paper
1885
Dimensions: 42.6 cm x 32.1 cm
Collection Categories
Applied Arts, Drawings and studies, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. and Morris & Co., Tapestries and Wall Hangings, Works on Paper / Vellum
Inscribed in pencil at lower right corner, "10 ft. 2 in. x 7 ft. 5 in. / £396."; on verso, inscribed in pencil by Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, "Flora. / Design for tapestry by W. Morris / and E. Burne-Jones. Reproduced / in colours Easter Art annual 1899 Extra Number / Exhibited Victoria & Albert Museum Morris Centenary / Exhibition 1935. / The tapestry in the V & A Museum (with final inscription)"; at lower right, in pencil, "60".

John Henry Dearle joined Morris & Co in 1878 as a glass painter, but he also worked in the tapestry department by the mid 1880s. This watercolour brings together a reduced version of Burne-Jones cartoon of the figure and the floral background by William Morris prior to weaving.

William Waters
23/04/2020
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
John M Crawford Jnr 1975
The Pierpont Morgan Library (The Morgan, The Morgan Library and Museum) 1975 - Present 1975.46 Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
William Morris Centenary Exhibition V&A 1934 Victoria and Albert Museum V&A (South Kensington Museum) February 1934 April 1934
To Observe and Imagine British Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900 Cat no 119 The Pierpont Morgan Library (The Morgan, The Morgan Library and Museum)
January 1998 May 1998
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Easter Art Annual 1899 Extra Number David Croal Thomson 1899
Reproduced in colour
Burne-Jones, Fortunée de Lisle Fortunée de Lisle 1904
p. 193
Eighteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977 Charles Ryskamp 1978
p. 254
William Morris: A Life for Our Time Fiona MacCarthy 1994
p. 446
To Observe and Imagine British Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900 Stephanie Wiles 1998
Cat no 119 p 49 frontispiece
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 3, 13, 15, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 180, 192, 203, 235, 238, 256, 268, 287, 329, 371, 387, 425, 439, 449, 466, 499 pp. 1-17, 20-24, 26-71, 75-122, 124-150, 152-154, 156-203, 205, 207-232, 234-242, 244-249, 251-262, 264-272, 274-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-352, 354-355, 357-361, 363-389, 391-392, 395-396, 398-400, 402-416, 418-446, 451-472, 474, 476, 478-483, 485-502, 504-518, 520, 522-523, 525-530, 534, 536