Art Nouveau Halter Dress, William Morris "The Strawberry Thieves" Art Nouveau Halter Dress Select Size Halter Dress:XL (14-16) 5 40 261 9 40

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This stroke-able

is best known today for publishing two major pictorial works on the history of design - Le costume historique and L'Ornement polychrome - while engraver and artistic director at the Parisian publisher Firmin Didot et Cie

it is evident from the detail and lifelike appearance of his paintings of chickens and other animals that he based his work on actual observation

Art Nouveau Halter Dress, William Morris "The Strawberry Thieves" Art Nouveau Halter Dress Select Size Halter Dress:XL (14-16) 5 40 261 9 40A wonderful Art Nouveau design around the textile by William Morris, the master of textiles in the 19th and early 20th Century. The Strawberry Thieves is one of William Morris's most popular repeating designs for textiles. It takes as its subject the thrushes that Morris found stealing fruit in his kitchen garden of his countryside home, Kelmscott Manor, in Oxfordshire. To print the pattern Morris used the painstaking indigo discharge method he