William Morris Woodpecker I Wall Tapestry SIZE:40"W x 72"H a set of 8 tapestries

a set of 8 tapestries woven at the Gobelins Factory during the 17th century

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conserving a characteristic of naturalistic painting where the picture plane is conceived as a window through which one looks at a tree dimensional view

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Springtime is personified in a piece from his The Seasons series

William Morris Woodpecker I Wall Tapestry SIZE:40"W x 72"H a set of 8 tapestriesThis tapestry depicts a woodpecker against an ornate backdrop and was designed by Morris & Co in 1877. Most of the company's production was a collaborative effort involving several artists, but Woodpecker is unusual in that it was one of the very few tapestries designed by William Morris in its entirety. It shows a woodpecker sitting in the branch of a fruit tree and features Morris' distinctive ornate background of leaves and his legendary attention