Terms and conditions of use
William MORRIS (designer), Philip WEBB (designer), JEFFREY & CO., London (manufacturer), MORRIS & CO., London (retailer)
Trellis wallpaper
designed 1864
Medium
colour woodcut on paper
Measurements
79.4 × 56.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Michael Whiteway, 2009
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Accession Number
2009.384
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest