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New Mill Pond and weaving and printing sheds, Merton Abbey (1898)

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Date: 1898
Dimensions: 15.9 x 10.8
Object Type: drawing
Material: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue number: D56
Artist: New, Edmund Hort (1871 - 1931)
Credit notes: Presented by John William Mackail, 1930

One of a number of drawings made by New to illustrate Mackail’s ‘Life of William Morris’ published by Longmans, Green & Co. 1899. This drawing shows the weaving and printing sheds of Morris & Co.’s factory at Merton Abbey. According to the list of New’s illustrations in Mackail’s notebook (J164 pp.41-42) New was paid 3 guineas for the drawing by Longmans to whom the drawing was delivered 6 June 1898.

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