Lot 471

JESSIE MARION KING (19875-1949)
FOR THE BED AT KELMSCOTT








Auction: Day Two inc FL Griggs : A Cotswold Legacy | Lots 334 to 654 | Thursday 16th October from 10am
Description
pen & ink, watercolour on vellum, signed lower right JESSIE M. KING
Dimensions
33cm x 30cm (frame size 37.5cm x 34cm)
Provenance
Jessie M. King, who gave this picture to her friend Mary Murray (nee Geikie)
Thence by family descent
Footnote
In William Morris's room at Kelmscott Manor, the early-seventeenth century carved oak bed has an embroidered valance and bed-hangings that were designed in 1891 by May Morris, his daughter, and worked by May with the help of Lily Yeats and Ellen Wright (two Morris & Co. embroiderers). The poem ‘For the Bed at Kelmscott' was written by William Morris for the project. May Morris also designed the bedcover, which was embroidered by Jane Morris, William Morris's wife.







