Flower Garden
1879 · Woven silk · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Year
- 1879
- Medium
- Woven silk
- Original size
- 228.6 × 68.6 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Movement
- Arts and Crafts
Symmetrical sprays of pale blue-green and olive flowers and leaves, with copper-pink accents, are woven against a deep green silk ground, the threads giving the surface a faint sheen. William Morris designed Flower Garden in 1879. He said he chose its colours to suggest inlaid metalwork, and curators link that idea to the Damascus pieces he examined at the London dealer Vincent Robinson's shop in 1878, the same visit that fed into Peacock and Dragon. The V&A holds a Jacquard-woven silk of the design in light blue, yellow and mauve on dark green; this colourway is quieter, in sage, olive and copper. This silk length, over two metres long, was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1923.
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
Muted sage, olive and copper on deep green give a quiet, textured richness to a study, library or bedroom. Pair it with Violet and Columbine (Green) at 16×24 in natural wood.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Arts and Crafts pattern
- Era
- 19th century (1879)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, classic
- Rooms
- bedroom, 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.
