Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

Dress Fabric Design - Eyebright

By William Morris

1883

Accession number: 1941P414

Watercolour and bodycolour over paper.

Width: 288 mm

Height: 384 mm

Two sections of a design set within vertical lines, printing colour notes surrounding image.

Information

Eyebright was originally designed by Morris as a cotton dress fabric, registered on the 23 November 1883. It had a repeat design of less than six inches and proved practical, in the sense of being washable, as well as being in tune with the so called Aesthetic revival.

Purchased from Morris & Co through Friends of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1940
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	William Morris	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)
Eye Bright Dress Chintz/ 4 1/2 / white discharge or resist/ pale blue & green/ half discharg or resist/ yellowing & green/ yellow/ Sketch in pink for white/ green yellow or white (pencil, front)// Eye-Bright/ Dress Chintz/ 42/ Morris & Co / Merton Abbey Works. Surrey (ink) .
Notes	-	Handwritten	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Morris & Co Centenary Exhibition
-	Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonL	1962-01-01 - 1962-01-01

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Textiles by William Morrris and Morris & Co
Emmeline Leary, Mr Oliver Fairclough	1981	Thames and Hudson, London	P16, p.89

William Morris by Himself: Designs and Writiings
Gillian Naylor	1988	Macdonald Orbis, London	p.268, repro