"Compton" Morris and Co. curtains
John Henry Dearle (1860 - 1932)
Category
Textiles
Date
1877 - 1917
Materials
textile
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1275386
Summary
Compton original curtains, floral design, the fabric printed by Morris & Co., hung at Adelphi Terrace in the drawing-room, designed by J.H. Dearle in 1896. (See Linda Parry, William Morris Textiles (London: V&A Publishing, 2013 [1983]), 259, no.95). Photographic evidence: Shaw in the drawing-room at Adelphi Terrace, posing with Morris & Co. Compton curtains, beneath Morris’s portrait by Frederick Hollyer. The Sketch, (March 12 1902), 303. (BL Add. MS 50582A, f.13v). Another photograph of Shaw by Ernest Mills records the presence of Morris curtains in Compton in the same room (privately printed book of portrait photographs of Shaw compiled and presented to Charlotte by the American publisher W.H. Wise.).
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw in 1950, together with Shaw's photographic archive.
Makers and roles
John Henry Dearle (1860 - 1932), designer Morris & Co., manufacturer