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DiashowDesign for
- Drawing
- WallArt
- Arts and Crafts
- 1860
- 19th Century
- 71.0 x 35.0 cm
- William Morris Galerie
Philip Speakman Webb (1831 – 1915)
Ein Pionier der Kunsthandwerksarchitektur. Designer des Rot Hauses und Wegbereiter einer Ästhetik geprägt von Einfachheit und natürlichen Materialien. Erforschen Sie seinen Einfluss auf Morris & Co.
William Morris Galerie (Walthamstow, Vereinigtes Königreich)
Entdecken Sie die Welt von William Morris im Herzen von Walthamstow! Die größte Sammlung seiner Textilien, Designs & sozialistischen Ideen. Kostenloser Eintritt – ein Muss für Kunst- und Designliebhaber!
This full-size drawing for an embroidered frieze was produced for Morris & Co. by Philip Webb in around 1860. Webb was primarily an architect, notably designing Morris’ Red House, but was also a gifted draughtsman with a particular interest in the natural world. As a young boy, he studied the illustrations of Thomas Bewick, the influence of whom remained evident throughout Webb’s artistic output. William Morris would often ask Webb to draw the animals within his designs for wallpapers, tapestries and textiles, recognising his superior skill. See for example ‘Trellis’, Morris’s first wallpaper design (William Morris Gallery BLA472), and ‘The Forest’, a large tapestry woven at Merton Abbey in 1887, which also incorporates a peacock into its design alongside Morris’s swirling acanthus leaves. The finished frieze, known as
Über dieses Kunstwerk
- Titel: Design for
- Künstler: Philip Speakman Webb
- Jahr: 1860
- Originalmaße: 71.0 x 35.0 cm
- Format: Tall
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Gemeinfreiheit
- Ausstellung/Standort: William Morris Galerie
- Technik: WallArt
- Schöpferische Phase: Early Period
- Kontext des Korpus: natural world interest , textile and wallpaper pattern
Eckdaten
- Medium: Drawing
- Subject or theme: Nature and wildlife
- Movement: Arts and Crafts
- Notable elements: Peacock with spread feathers, birds
- Influences: Thomas Bewick
- Artistic style: Naturalistic draughtsmanship
- Dimensions: 71 x 35 cm
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