Celandine
1896 · Block-printed wallpaper on paper · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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About this work
- Artist
- John Henry Dearle (1860–1932)
- Year
- 1896
- Medium
- Block-printed wallpaper on paper
- Original size
- 58.5 × 55.5 cm
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Movement
- Arts and Crafts
Clumps of spring flowers stand in alternating rows inside a bower of light green vines: coral blossoms, yellow star-shaped flowers, small blue bluebells and spotted turquoise bells, on a warm off-white ground. Celandine was designed by John Henry Dearle for the firm William Morris founded and is usually dated 1896; the Cooper Hewitt catalogues this sheet with a broader date range and the V&A gives it as late nineteenth century. The V&A describes the layout as a diaper of entwined vines whose 'diamonds' each contain a flowering plant, while the Cooper Hewitt identifies lily of the valley and bluebells among them. The celandine of the title is a small yellow wildflower of early spring. This sample, stamped with a pattern number on its back, is in the Cooper Hewitt.
This print fills the sheet edge to edge with the pattern, cropped from a high-resolution museum scan of the original, so it reads like a panel of the wallpaper or fabric. The exhibition poster shows the whole sample. The design is in the public domain.
Where it works
Spring wildflowers in coral, yellow and blue among fresh green vines suit a nursery, kitchen or garden room. Pair it with Daisy (Green), another rows-of-flowers paper, at 24×36 in natural wood.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Arts and Crafts pattern
- Era
- 19th century (1896)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, classic
- Rooms
- kitchen, nursery
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the pattern, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Hangs alone or as a matched pair; three or more prints are 10% off.
