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Sidewall (England)

A drawing of a group of stylized yellow, red, pink, and white flowers and their green leaves and stems. The are all elaborately spread around the square page with silhouttes of flowers around the edges. Between the sinuous arrangement makes the picture dense in detail: the flowers themslves have bold, thicker outlines than the details of their stamens and petals and are depicted closer and further away in space, each at a different angle and stage of blossoming and budding. The outlines of the curvy stems and numerous leaves make the shapes in the foreground bold, while in the background there are faded, faint light blue curves and spirals that add more movement, mimicing the dancing stems.

Embroidery Sample (France)

Drawing, Garden with Classical Buildings and a Fountain

Covered Dish in the Form of a Red Cabbage or Tulip Dish

Sidewall, Tulip

A width of cotton textile printed with a repeating pattern of wavy vertical bands filled with flowers, in soft springtime greens and yellows. There are four bands across the fabric, each bordered with a little white-flowered vine. Shoots of small pale blue flowers with dark green leaves grow out from this vine into the bands at each side, to interlace with curving bunches of yellow-chartreuse and white daffodil flowers nodding on long pale green stems. Below the daffodils, a white tulip-shaped motif patterned with a yellow-green leafy vine weaves around the vine border. From top to bottom, the horizontal pattern is blue flowers, daffodils, tulip motif, and then the pattern repeats again. [REC MORRIS & COMPANY] is printed in dark letters in the blank selvedge.

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