From Pre-Raphaelites to Arts and Crafts

May Morris (1862 - 1938)

Design for a waist buckle; 

pen and black ink over graphite on off-white paper;  height x width: sheet 11.6 x 17.4 cm

Inscribed in black ink at lower centre: Waist Buckle / The leaves and tendrils of beaten silver / laid on a silver plate, the latter covered / with a punched diaper

Purchased from the trustees of Kelmscott Manor, 1941.;  WA1941.108.2