The Weaving Shed at Oldham

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Date: 1890
Dimensions: 66 x 55.9
Object Type: drawing
Material: pastel on paper
Catalogue number: D74
Sitter: Fawcett, Philippa Garrett (4 April 1868 - 10 June 1948)
Artist: Rathbone, Harold Steward (1858 - 1929)
Credit notes: Gift of Philippa Garrett Fawcett, 1938

The subject of this portrait, Phillippa Garrett Fawcett (1868-1948) was the daughter of the pioneer suffragist Millicent Fawcett, she won early fame by achieving high marks in the Mathematics Tripos at Cambridge University- at the time women were not admitted to the University’s degrees. It is said that Fawcett inspired William Morris to use her name for one of the characters in his novel ‘News From Nowhere’. ‘Mistress Philippa’ is the skilled stone-carver whom William Guest meets during his journey up the Thames to Kelmcott.

The portrait is by Harold Steward Rathbone, after studying at the Slade School and in Paris, Rathbone worked as a pupil of Ford Madox Brown, assisting him with the murals at Manchester Town Hall. He played an active role in the Arts and Crafts Movement and in 1893 set up the Della Robbia Art Pottery in Birkenhead.

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Date: c.1870
Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Catalogue number: C191
Artist: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Retailer: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

This design of alternating swans and leaf scroll motif is attributed to William Morris c.1862 and was manuaftured in the Netherlands after 1870. The tiles were originally decorated in Morris & Co.’s workshops on an imported Dutch tin-glaze tile but Morris transferred production to the Netherlands c.1870, this tile is slightly larger and decorated using the more durable ‘in-glaze’ technique, as opposed to the hand painted ‘on-glaze’ technique of the earlier smaller tiles (see C178&a).

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Date: 1888-98
Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Material: earthenware
Catalogue number: C48
Manufacturer: De Morgan, Sands End Pottery, Fulham, London, England
Designer: De Morgan, William (1839 - 1917)
Owner: Marillier | H. C.
Credit notes: Presented by Lady Pooley, 1953

Tile painted in underglaze pale green and turquoise swirling leaves on an blue ground. Designed as part of a repeating pattern. Marked with “1888 – 98” and a circle containing the words “Wm De Morgan & Co. Sands end Pty Fulm” around a Tudor rose. The tiles (a set of three) were formerly in the collection of H.C. Marillier, managing director of Morris and Co. from 1905-1940.

Designed as part of a repeating pattern, complete panels of which can be seen on the fireplace in the Richmond Fellowship 8 Addison Road, Kensington, London, originally built for Sir Ernest Debenham by Halsey Ricardo.

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Date: c.1863-64
Dimensions: 15.2 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Material: earthenware tiles painted in enamels
Catalogue number: C202.1
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Painter: Orrinsmith (née Faulkner) | Lucy
Credit notes: Purchased with the aid of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the William Morris Gallery

This series of 10 tiles depicts the story of Cinderella. It was designed by Edward Burne-Jones and painted by Lucy Faulkner. Burne-Jones account book for September 30, 1862 refers to : “10 designs for tiles, Cinderella paid £7.10s” which may well be the set made for Myles Birket Foster’s house, The Hill at Witley Surrey. The tiles were intended for an overmantel panel and four two tile figures, the original designs are in the V&A and Fitzwilliam. This set is said to have been from a house adjacent to Bracken Dene, Low Fell, Gateshead (home of James Leathart, patron of the Pre-Raphaelites) Other sets exist in the Gallery’s collection (C82), the Walker Art Gallery and the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection, The Huntington Library in California.

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