 The fireplace in the Green Room at Kelmscott Manor |
  
 Kelmscott Manor Tiles The tiles above are reproductions of the original hand-painted tiles on the fireplace in the Green Room at Kelmscott Manor |
| Labours of the Month Queen's College Cambridge F E B R U A R Y Designed by Sir Edward Coley BURNE-JONES Bt (1833-1898) and painted by Lucy FAULKNER ORRINSMITH (1839-1910) for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company. February, depicting a young woman in 18th-century dress reading a valentine card, is from a series of 2-tile panels illustrating all twelve of The Months. Other figures in the series were designed by D. G. Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and William Morris. As well as the version in the William Morris Gallery, there is another set of The Months used in the tiled overmantel of the Dining Hall at Queen's College, Cambridge (1862). The zodiac sign (Pisces) in the top right corner was designed by Philip Webb (1831-1915). A P R I L Designed by William MORRIS (1834-1896) and painted by Lucy FAULKNER ORRINSMITH (1839-1910) for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company. April, depicting a young woman in medieval dress holding a blossoming branch, is from a series of 2-tile panels illustrating all twelve of The Months. Other figures in the series were designed by D. G. Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones. As well as the version in the William Morris Gallery, there is another set of The Months used in the tiled overmantel of the Dining Hall at Queen's College, Cambridge (1862). The Zodiac sign (Taurus) in the top left corner was designed by Philip Webb (1831-1915). |
 Labours of the Month Queen's College Cambridge |
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A L C E S T E From original hand-painted tiles in the William Morris Gallery collection Designed by Sir Edward Coley BURNE-JONES Bt (1833-1898) and painted by Lucy FAULKNER ORRINSMITH (1839-1910) for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company. Alceste was part of a tiled fireplace in the hall at Sandroyd. Designed by Philip Webb two years after commencing work on Red House. Sandroyd became the home of artist Spencer Stanhope one of the Morris circle. Between 1892 - 1894 Webb designed Standen for London solicitor James Beale. Webb and Morris formed an important part of the Arts and Craft Movement founding the society for the protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877. |