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📸 William Morris, Design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862
While we're closed our curators are using social media to highlight some of their favourite objects in the order you'd see them if you were visiting the Gallery. THREAD
From Meet the Man, our introductory gallery: Design for African Marigold printed cotton, William Morris, 1876. The dense, vigorous swirls of this design show Morris at the height of his powers as a textile designer #museumsathome
Join @FoundlingMuseum from 24 January for #PortrayingPregnancy, a major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years. https://t.co/Vpcnqx7xhr
Image: Detail of Textile Panel with Embracing Figures © Ashmolean Museum
Ceramic tile by William De Morgan
An artist, designer & author, De Morgan was one of the most inventive designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. He died of trench fever #OTD in 1917.
See May Morris’s designs & incredible embroidery work in @Dovecotstudio’s upcoming exhibition about her life & work.
May Morris: Art & Life opens on 26 November.
Book tickets: https://t.co/uOftAM3fso
Free Family Day today!
Come & celebrate #TheBigDraw festival 2019.
Join us by the walled garden for outdoor ceramic tile drawing (inside if it’s raining).
Just drop by 1-4pm
(image: ceramic tile by William De Morgan)
We’re celebrating #TheBigDraw festival at this Saturday’s Family Day.
Come & join us by the walled garden for outdoor ceramic tile drawing (inside if it’s raining).
A free event for all the family, just drop by 1-4pm Sat 26/10
Honeysuckle design by May Morris who died #OTD 1938
Find out about May’s life & work at the @DovecotStudios in Edinburgh next month
May Morris: Art & Life opens on 28 November
For more info & to book tickets: https://t.co/GNoDVwiXVO
May Morris: Art & Life
Opens next month at the @DovecotStudios in Edinburgh.
Discover the life & work of one of the most influential artists of the Arts & Crafts movement.
Opens 28 Nov
For more info & to book tickets: https://t.co/GNoDVwiXVO