York
York
Object name: Wallpaper sample
Sidney G. Mawson (1849 - 1941)
Date: 1893
Dimensions:
1240mm x 572mm
Medium: Woodcut
Object number: PT0799
DescriptionColour print from wood blocks 124 x 57.2cm, 1893
Name after the white rose of the house of York this design reflects the influence that William Morris had on Mawson's design.
There is a close similarity in this design to William Morris's Rose of the 1880s. This can be seen in the weave of the stems and placing of leaves and flowers against a background layer of different, but harmonising pattern of leaf forms. However, Mawson approach is lighter and less mannered, the pale sky blue and the catching of white light on the leaf, stem and flowers accentuates three dimensional form moving away from the representation by use of flat colour seen in his other work. A later design "Maxwell" follows through this different approach.
The looser spatial relationship of weaving branches, leaves and flowers is' retained but now supported by a light trellis against a plain pale background.
Morris's 1864 "Trellis" is an early precedent but Mawson still chooses to emphasise light and minimise flat colour.
Name after the white rose of the house of York this design reflects the influence that William Morris had on Mawson's design.
There is a close similarity in this design to William Morris's Rose of the 1880s. This can be seen in the weave of the stems and placing of leaves and flowers against a background layer of different, but harmonising pattern of leaf forms. However, Mawson approach is lighter and less mannered, the pale sky blue and the catching of white light on the leaf, stem and flowers accentuates three dimensional form moving away from the representation by use of flat colour seen in his other work. A later design "Maxwell" follows through this different approach.
The looser spatial relationship of weaving branches, leaves and flowers is' retained but now supported by a light trellis against a plain pale background.
Morris's 1864 "Trellis" is an early precedent but Mawson still chooses to emphasise light and minimise flat colour.