British Choices

Anonymous British Sculptor
Adoration of the Magi
(composition derived from an engraving)
ca. 1540
alabaster relief panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous British Needleworker
Valance
17th century
silk embroidery on silk satin
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous British Potter
Pickle Leaf
ca. 1770-80
lead-glazed earthenware
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous British Needleworker
Figures in Landscape within Decorated Border
ca. 1780
silk embroidery and pigment on silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous British Lacemaker
Sleeve Ruffle of Honiton Bobbin-Lace
19th century
 linen
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous British Needleworker
Pocket Book
19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous British Designer
Gothic Arches
ca. 1840-50
block-printed wallpaper
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous British Designer
The Kingsmere
1882
block-printed wallpaper
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous British Glassblower
Ewer
ca. 1890
mold-blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Anonymous British Lacemaker
Collar of Bobbin Lace
ca. 1900
linen
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous British Printmaker
Franco-British Exhibition, London
1908
chromolithograph (postcard)
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Roger Fry
Design for a Marquetry and Lacquer Cabinet
to be produced by Omega Workshops
ca. 1913
gouache and collage on paper
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Omega Workshops
Waistcoat in Cracow Fabric designed by Roger Fry
1913
jacquard-woven wool and linen
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Roger Fry for Omega Workshops
Margery
1913
sample of block-printed linen
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Vanessa Bell for Omega Workshops
White
1913
sample of block-printed linen
Art Institute of Chicago

Roger Fry for Omega Workshops
Still Life
1918
woodcut
British Museum

Anonymous British Designer
Interlaced Bands
1968
screenprinted wallpaper
Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

An Epitaph upon a Young Married Couple Dead and Buryed Together

To these, whom Death again did wed,

This Grave's their second Marriage-bed.

For though the hand of fate could force

'Twixt Soul & Body a Divorce,
It could not sunder man & Wife,

'Cause They Both livèd but one life.

Peace, good Reader.  Doe not weep.

Peace, The Lovers are asleep.

They, sweet Turtles, folded ly

In the last knott love could ty. 

And though they ly as they were dead,

Their Pillow stone, their sheetes of lead

(Pillow hard, & sheetes not warm)

Love made the bed; They'l take no harm.

Let them sleep: let them sleep on

Till this stormy night be gone,

Till th' Æternall morrow dawn;

Then the curtaines will be drawn

And they wake into a light, 

Whose day shall never dy in Night.

– Richard Crashaw (1652)