£550
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves | 700
Auction: 28 June 2022 at 11:00 BST
hand-blocked paper, printed by Jeffrey & Co., later framed
Literature: Schoeser M. The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co in Context, ACC 2022, p.93, no. 83 illus.
Note: Willow Boughs was inspired by an afternoon walk taken by Morris and his daughter May near Kelmscott manor in Oxfordshire. May Morris later wrote that her fathers “keenly observed rendering of our willows has enbowed many a London living room”