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One of the doors through which the fairies slip (this one covered with William Morris original wallpaper )

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The Depths of the Sea, Edward Burne-Jones, 1887, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Drawing is executed on wove paper mounted to paper and attached to panel. The primary support is slightly smaller than the panel. The watercolor extends beyond the edges of the primary support, so the paper was mounted prior to execution. Harvard Art … Size: 197 x 76 cm (77 9/16 x 29 15/16 in.) primary support: 194.5 x 746 cm (76 9/16 x 293 11/16 in.) frame: 214.3 x 94.6 x 8.3 cm (84 3/8 x 37 ¼ x 3 ¼ in.) Medium: Watercolor and gouache on wove paper mounted on panel

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298102

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The Days of Creation: The Third Day, Edward Burne-Jones, 1870-1876, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Size: 102.1 x 35.9 cm (40 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.) Medium: Watercolor, gouache, shell gold, and platinum paint on linen-covered panel prepared with zinc white ground

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298088

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(via Taslim Martin Installation - YouTube)

Taslim Martin

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William Morris, Part V. ‘Daisy Pattern (for Hand-Painted Tiles)’

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An Angel Playing A Flageolet, 1878, Edward Burne-Jones

Medium: watercolor,gouache,gold

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My favorite window at Norwich Cathedral is this Arts and Crafts beauty by William Morris and Co. in memory of Lt Cecil Faulkner Cawston who died fighting for his country in February 1901.  Photo by Charles Reeza.

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Sir Edward Burne-Jones, School For Dragon Babies, 1884, pencil on paper

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Embroidered bag, c.1878 by Jane Morris, English Arts & Crafts Movement embroiderer who was also an artists’ model for the Pre-Raphaelites @womensart1

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William Scott Luce, Edward Burne-Jones

Medium: stainedglass

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 Typography Tuesday

POST-WWI PRINTING IN ENGLAND

We return to Printing of To-Day: An Illustrated Survey of Post-War Typography in Europe and the United States, printed at the Curwen Press in 1928, and published by Harper and Brothers in New York. and Peter Davies Limited in London (a publishing house founded in 1926 by Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the Llewelyn Davies children befriended by J. M. Barrie, and whose name was the source for Barrie’s Peter Pan).

This week we feature specimens from the section “Printing in England,” by British printer typographer Oliver Simon (1895–1956), the managing director of the Curwen Press and co-founder of the influential typography journal The Fleuron. Simon writes:

The majority of books in England are set by Monotype or Linotype machine… . The Monotype machine is, in my opinion, better adapted to printing the finest quality… . Moreover, the Monotype Corporation has a better selection of type faces to offer printers than its rival, although … both corporations fall short of what might be expected of them… .

There are no CONTEMPORARY Book-types worthy of note: printers are in advance of typographers. It is not easy to believe that there are not designers who could do good work if encouraged… . To-day, the two type corporations… have for all practical purposes a monopoly! Is it too much to ask them to commission modern types? … The plates that follow … may give a hint of what English printing will achieve in the near future if printers and publishers will have faith in their own age.

Fortunately, Simon would see his desired outcomes achieved during his lifetime. Once again, as image captions are still not appearing in the Tumblr dashboard, we list them here from top to bottom:

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Angela Barrett

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Jane Austen Stamps - 200th Anniversary - Pride and Prejudice

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Margaret Agnes Rope,stained glass artist @womensart1

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Jane Morris, 1860, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: pen

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Corncockle (1883, produced 1917- 25). Designed by William Morris (English, 1834–1896). Produced by Morris & Company.

Block printed cotton.

Image and text information courtesy Art Institute Chicago.

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‘Dove and Rose’ (furnishing fabric). Designed by William Morris (1834 -1896) in 1879 and woven by Alexander Morton & Company for Morris and Company.

Woven silk and wool double cloth.

Image and text information courtesy V&A.

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