WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) FOR MORRIS & CO. AND LEWIS F. DAY (1845-1910) FOR TURNBULL & STOCKDALE GROUP OF ORIGINAL TEXTILES, CIRCA 1880

comprising: a PAIR OF LINED 'KENNET' PATTERN CURTAINS, registered 1883, blue colourway, printed cotton, each 249cm x 175cm; a 'KENNET' PATTERN PANEL, blue colourway, printed 157cm x 83cm; TWO 'TULIP' PATTERN PANELS, registered 1875, blue colourway, printed cotton, 78cm x 137cm and 42cm x 210cm; a 'ROSE AND THISTLE' PATTERN PANEL, registered 1881, pink colourway, printed cotton, 155cm x 128cm; a 'WEY' PATTERN PANEL, registered 1883, printed cotton, lined, 180cm x 96cm; SIX TURNBULL & STOCKDALE PANELS, blue colourway, printed cotton, 78cm square; 80cm square; 79cm square; 80cm square; 56cm x 54cm and 136cm x 76cm; and a FURTHER TURNBULL & STOCKDALE EXAMPLE, blue colourway, printed cotton, 37cm x 52cm, both designed by Lewis Day (Qty: 13) Qty: (13) Provenance: From the collection of Arthur Halcrow Verstage Footnote: Literature: Parry, L. William Morris Textiles, V&A 2013, p.237, no.55; p.229, no. 46; p.207, no. 8, p. 237, no. 54 Note: Arthur Halcrow Verstage was an architect who spent much of his career in the public sector. He was a student at the Royal Academy School of Architecture in the 1900s and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1902. By 1903 he was a student and assistant at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (later known as the Central School of Art and Design) in London where William Lethaby was principal and a great influence on him. He then oversaw the design of the new school in Southampton Row from 1905-8. From here he became an architect for London County Council and was involved with many London societies, and as a founding member of the Kelmscott Fellowship, a forerunner to The William Morris Society. His large and varied collection, amassed from 1902, reflected his wide interest in the arts. His archive was purchased by The William Morris Society in 2005.