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William Morris to Whistler; papers and addresses on art and craft and the commonweal (1911)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell & Sons ltd. · leaf 44

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supervised work underhis control, carried out by many different crafts-men under his eye, and not so much by his ownactual handiwork. In any estimate of William Morriss power andinfluence as an artist, this should always be borne 26 ^\•ITJJA^[ ^^ORRIs and his workin mind. He always clescril)ed… … KELMSCOTT HOUSE. MEETING ROOM OF THE HAMMERSMITHSOCIALIST SOCIETV. at Merton Abbey, without his sanction from theartistic point of view. The wave of taste which he had done so muchto create certainly brought prosperity to the firm,and larger premises had to be taken; so Morrisand Company emerged…

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