Golden Lily
1897 · Block-printed wallpaper on paper · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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About this work
- Artist
- John Henry Dearle (1860–1932)
- Year
- 1897
- Medium
- Block-printed wallpaper on paper
- Original size
- 68.5 × 57.5 cm
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Movement
- Arts and Crafts
Pale blue lilies with fleur-de-lis petals, coral tulips, spotted cream lilies and small ochre flowers twine through broad green and blue-green leaves on a deep teal ground speckled with dots. Golden Lily was designed by John Henry Dearle, who became art director of the firm after William Morris died in 1896. It is usually dated 1897, matching a design drawing in the Huntington, while the Cooper Hewitt dates this sheet 1899. Like many of Dearle's papers it was long sold and remembered as a Morris design, and it became one of the firm's more popular patterns. Dearle stayed close to Morris's style while bringing in his own tighter symmetry. This sheet was printed by Jeffrey & Co. and entered the Cooper Hewitt in 1935.
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
Teal and green leaves with coral and pale-blue lilies give a deep, lush wall for a living room, dining room or dark-walled study. Pair it with Single Stem at 16×24 in black.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Arts and Crafts pattern
- Era
- 19th century (1897)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- butter yellow
- Mood
- decorative, classic
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, study or library
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
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.
