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Description: | Of the three versions, .1 and .2 are printed on laid paper and belong to a larger edition of 50, whilst .3 is printed on wove paper and doesn't belong to the same edition (and therefore may be an artists proof). The accompanying poem, an exceprt from a longer poem by William Morris, is cut around the image and bordered, reads: "I broider fair her glorious gown, And deck her on her days of mirth, With many a garland of renown" Originally from verse quatrains by William Morris, published in Poems by the Way, 1891. The full verse is: "I am the handmaid of the Earth / I broider fair her glorious gown / And deck her on her days of mirth / With many a garland of renown / and while Earth's little ones / are fain / and play about the mother's hem / I scatter every gist I gain / from sun and wind to gladden them" The poem can also be seen in full, on a fine tapestry at The Whitworth Artt Gallery, University of Manchester, designed by Morris with Edward Burne-Jones and Sir Edward Coley, and manufactured by Morris and Company at Merton Abbey. | Subjects: | Seated woman embroidering / with poem as part of design Print | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Maker: Rooke;Noel; | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9269... | Go to resource |
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