The Pilgrim in the Garden of Idleness with the Dancing Figures of the Virtues

Details

Date: 1874-1876
Dimensions: 86.3 x 628.7
Object Type: textile
Material: wool on linen
Technique: hand-embroidered
Catalogue number: F140c
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Maker: Johnson, Florence
Maker: Bell, Margaret (1820 - 1886)
Credit notes: Presented by Sir Hugh Bell, Bart., 1953

This embroidery was part of a frieze of five parts commissioned by Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell and his wife Margaret for the dining room of Rounton Grange, Northallerton, Yorkshire. The panels depict the story of The Romaunt of the Rose by Geoffrey Chaucer and were based on original pictures drawn by Edward Burne-Jones c.1874-76 (see D187). The exquisite embroidery was executed by the wife and daughter of Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, Margaret Bell and Florence Johnson, respectively.