The Embroidress
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1913
Maker: Noel Rooke
Dimensions:
165 x 161 mm (16.5 x 16.1 cm)
Medium: Laid paper, wove paper
Object number: P.1698.1-3
DescriptionOf the three versions, 1. and 2. are printed on laid paper and belong to a larger edition of 50, whilst 3. is printed on wove paper and doesn't belong to the same edition (and therefore may be an artists proof). Seated woman embroidering with poem as part of design
The accompanying poem, an excerpt from a longer poem by William Morris, is cut around the image and bordered, reads: "I broider fair her glorious gown, And deck her on her days of mirth, With many a garland of renown"
Originally from verse quatrains by William Morris, published in Poems by the Way, 1891. The full verse is:
"I am the handmaid of the Earth / I broider fair her glorious gown / And deck her on her days of mirth / With many a garland of renown / and while Earth's little ones / are fain / and play about the mother's hem / I scatter every gist I gain / from sun and wind to gladden them"
The accompanying poem, an excerpt from a longer poem by William Morris, is cut around the image and bordered, reads: "I broider fair her glorious gown, And deck her on her days of mirth, With many a garland of renown"
Originally from verse quatrains by William Morris, published in Poems by the Way, 1891. The full verse is:
"I am the handmaid of the Earth / I broider fair her glorious gown / And deck her on her days of mirth / With many a garland of renown / and while Earth's little ones / are fain / and play about the mother's hem / I scatter every gist I gain / from sun and wind to gladden them"
