William Morris Woodpecker I Wall Tapestry Still Lifes the penultimate in Shakespeare's cycle

the penultimate in Shakespeare's cycle of history plays

a Dutch painter

This is a beautiful tapestry reproduction from the original artwork of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690)

In this wall tapestry you find an elegant tree of life design based on a late 1800's piece by the artist William Morris

This brand new wall tapestry is based on a 1626 map by John Speed a respected cartographer

William Morris Woodpecker I Wall Tapestry Still Lifes the penultimate in Shakespeare's cycleThis tapestry depicts a woodpecker against an ornate backdrop and was designed by Morris & Co in 1877. Most of the company's production was a collaborative effort involving several artists, but Woodpecker is unusual in that it was one of the very few tapestries designed by William Morris in its entirety. It shows a woodpecker sitting in the branch of a fruit tree and features Morris' distinctive ornate background of leaves and his legendary attention