Terms and conditions of use
Trellis wallpaper
designed 1864
- Medium
- colour woodcut on paper
- Measurements
- 79.4 × 56.8 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Accession Number
- 2009.384
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Michael Whiteway, 2009
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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William Morris was an influential figure in the English Arts and Crafts Movement. As a leading manufacturer and decorator, he exercised a profound influence on industrial design and interior decoration in the late nineteenth century. Morris was also a shareholder in Devon Great Consuls, a mine that became the world’s largest source of arsenic.
In 2003, a Scottish bio-geochemist identified the presence of arsenic green pigments in a sample of Trellis wallpaper, one of Morris’s earliest and most popular patterns.