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Queens' College, Cambridge : The Morris fireplace.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Kelmscott Press 53 [1]-[12]
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- Format:
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Queens' College (University of Cambridge)--Buildings.
- Queens' College (University of Cambridge).
- Ceramic tiles--Great Britain--19th century.
- Ceramic tiles.
- Decoration and ornament--England--19th century.
- Decoration and ornament.
- Fireplaces--Decoration.
- Fireplaces.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 prints : color photomechanical prints ; sheet 15 x 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Morris fireplace
- Place of Publication:
- [England?] : [publisher not identified], [19--?]
- Summary:
- Set of 12 cards, each showing one of the images of the 12 months of the year from the tiled and painted fireplace in the Old Hall, Queens' College, Cambridge, with the same accompanying explanatory text. The figures of the months were designed by various artists and the background decoration by William Morris.
- Contents:
- January (The double head of Janus) / centrepiece: Edward Burne-Jones ; background: William Morris
- February (Warming) / centrepiece: Edward Burne-Jones ; background: William Morris
- March (Pruning) / centrepiece: Ford Madox Brown ; background: William Morris
- April (Flower-bearing) / centrepiece, background: William Morris
- May (Hunting with hawk) / centrepiece: Ford Madox Brown ; background: William Morris
- June (Mowing) / centrepiece, background: William Morris
- July (Reaping) / centrepiece: Dante Gabriel Rosetti ; background: William Morris
- August (Threshing) / centrepiece: Dante Gabriel Rosetti ; background: William Morris
- September (Winemaking) / centrepiece: Dante Gabriel Rosetti ; background: William Morris
- October (Feeding hogs) / centrepiece: attributed to Edward Burne-Jones ; background: William Morris
- November (Sowing) / centrepiece: Ford Madox Brown ; background: William Morris
- December (Killing hogs) / centrepiece: Ford Madox Brown ; background: William Morris.
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- Place and century of publication conjectured by cataloger.
- Text (printed in green) at left; image at right.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy housed in tan envelope with "LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST Y 1818" printed on the flap.
- OCLC:
- 1268147335
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