Wall-hanging: T.1-1979

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Designer: Morris, William
Embroiderer: Godman, Ada Phoebe

Entities

Wall-hanging
Artichoke

Description

Wall hanging of linen twill, 'Artichoke' pattern embroidered in crewel wools in shades of cream, beige, pale, medium and dark brown, yellowish-brown, pale yellow, salmon pink, pale, medium and dark rose pink, pale, medium and dark green, pale medium and dark Prussian blue, pale blue, grey, and white with Artichoke design incorporating stylized artichokes, other flowers, and foliage. The borders are of oblique stripes, and the lower edge is fringed.

Notes

History note: Mrs Ada Phoebe Godman; by descent to Air Commodore Godman, 1952; with the Fine Art Society in association with Haslam & Whiteway, from whom purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

Purchased with the Adnitt, Marlay, University Purchase, and Webb Funds, and Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria & Albert Museum

Measurements and weight

Height: 213.5 cm
Width: 983.6 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Place(s) associated

Northallerton ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1979-06-04) by Haslam & Whiteway Fine Art Society

Dating

Late 19th Century
Circa 1875 CE - Circa 1899 CE

Note

The design of 1877 entitled 'Mrs Godman. Design for embroidered hanging (artichoke design)' is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (65-1898). This hanging and the other pieces which covered the walls of the room were worked by Mrs Godman over about twenty-five years. It was not an exclusive design. Margaret Bale embroidered the similar motifs for a room at Standen House, Sussex,

School or Style

Arts and Crafts (movement)

Components of the work

Embroidery composed of wool ( crewel wools incream, beige, lpale, medium and dark brown, yellowish-brown, pale yellow, salmon pink, pale, medium and dark rose pink, pale, medium and dark green, pale medium and dark Prussian blue, pale blue, grey, and white)
Hanging composed of linen
Decoration

References and bibliographic entries

Morris & Company in Cambridge page(s): 74-5
Pre-Raphaelites. Patrons and Patrons in the North East page(s): 94
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 170
William Morris and his Art
Exhibition of Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts page(s): 45
Arts and Crafts in Britain and America page(s): 66
William Morris Textiles page(s): 20-21, 26
William Morris y compañía: el movimiento Arts & Crafts en Gran Bretaña page(s): 150, 267

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: T.1-1979
Primary reference Number: 118384
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 21 March 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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