Compton

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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1896
Accession number: 2001.23
Makers: manufactured by Jeffrey & Co., Islington(Opens in new tab) (British); Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: sheet: 44 1/2 × 22 3/8 in. (113 × 56.8 cm.) frame: 49 1/2 × 28 1/2 in. (125.7 × 72.4 cm.)

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distemper on paper

Description

Large pink and blue blossoms with pink honeysuckle flowers and small white blossoms are intertwined with vines and acanthus leaves in pale green against dark green ground.

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The Huntington

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European Art

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This wallpaper design was part of a special commission by the Midlands brewer Laurence Hodson for his country house Compton Hall, near Wolverhampton. Registered in the year of Morris's death, Compton was designed by John Henry Dearle, one of the firm's chief designers, who closely imitated Morris's style. Dearle uses floral motifs arranged in a naturalistic manner, scattering the flowers loosely between the diagonal vines. In his 1881 lecture "Some Hints on Pattern Designing," Morris described two structures for repeating patterns: the "net," or diamond pattern, and the "branch," a pattern based on parallel diagonal lines. The branch structure of this design creates a strong impression of upward movement or, as Morris called it, "rational growth."

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