Drawings

Design for a Lampshade

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Accession number: 2000.5.573
Makers: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940); Unknown, British(Opens in new tab) (British)
Dimensions: 19 x 17 1/2 in. (48.3 x 44.5 cm.)
Medium: graphite and watercolor on paper
Description: Pentagon shape, divided into nine parts, largest which is filled in in watercolors, showing a green vine with red flowers and smaller blue flowers with yellow stems and leaves; some of the design is picked through in outline, as if for embroidery. Verso: a pair of leaves and diamond shape.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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