Fruit (or Pomegranate)

William Morris|Morris & Company|Jeffrey & Co.

ca. 1866 · Block-printed in distemper colors · Drawings and Prints

William Morris designed forty-one wallpapers and five ceiling papers, working from 1862 with Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company, and from 1875 with Morris & Company. "Fruit" (or Pomegranate) was one of Morris's early wallpapers, his first idea captured in a drawing of ca. 1862 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London). After some reworking, production took place inl 1864–65. A repeating pattern of lemons, oranges, pomegranates, peaches, fruit blossoms and foliage is printed against a French blue ground, and a variant was also produced using a light cream background.

Artist

William Morris|Morris & Company|Jeffrey & Co.

Date

ca. 1866

Medium

Block-printed in distemper colors

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923