Forgiving Janey talk

http://kimberlyevemusings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/who-was-jane-morris-lecture-at-columbia.html

bed cover

bed cover embroidered by
William Morris's daughter, May, in the Emery Walker house.
Photo: David Levene

http://williammorrisandmichele.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/kelmscott-bed-covers.html

May Morris, The Orchard, 1896, embroidered wall hanging, silk thread on silk ground

Details of May's embroidery

"Her father also appointed her as head of the embroidery department when she was only 23. I just love her free form stitches where she really 'paints' the design in simple silk stitches of chain stitch and darning stitch.."

A study for one of the couples in the background of the Blessed Damozel

A study for one of the couples in the background of the Blessed Damozel. This particular group appears in the left background of the 1875-78 version of the painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, comissioned by William Graham. There is also a version of the painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1875-79). The work is based on a poem, 'The Blessed Damozel', by Rossetti. Rossetti is here seen to be making pencil revisions to teh back nof the male figure.

Birmingham

Margje Bijl

Excerpt from an email Margje Bijl received from the curator of the William Morris Gallery,
Carien Kremer: 'We would like to offer you a slot in our 2014 programme, showing the
photographs in the Discovery Lounge...It would be great to mark the commemorative year
with a contemporary take on Jane'.

http://www.reflectionsonjanemorris.com/commemorating-jane-morris/

La Donna della Finestra detail