Fruit (or Pomegranate)

Designer William Morris British
 Manufacturer Morris & Company
Printer Jeffrey & Co. British

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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.

Fruit (or Pomegranate), William Morris (British, Walthamstow, London 1834–1896 Hammersmith, London), Block-printed in distemper colors

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