Drawings

New Persian

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1905
Accession number: 2000.5.9
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm.)
Medium: watercolor on paper
Description: Half of two repeating ogees, composed of green vines, and punctuated with large pink flowers, with smaller blue flowers at end of vines. Onion-shaped flowers are placed at where medallions join. The rest of the pattern is sketched roughly in graphite.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
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