Design for a Sofa

Design in ink for a sofa framed by poles of alternating dark and light bands, and cushions lashed to them. Fan-like ornaments are mounted on the back and arms. A second, less finished drawing of a sofa is underneath. Notes and numbers in pencil are also on the sheet of paper, most in the hand of William Morris.

DGR made another sofa design around the same time, perhaps for the sofa he designed for himself around 1863.

A design for a sofa made for Ford Madox Brown by the William Morris Firm. It was exhibited at the International Exposition of 1862. It also appears in the background of the Potiphar drawing.

• DGR: 1828-1882: An Exhibition [Tokyo 1990], 146 (no. 101).
• Country Life, April 1, 1965 issue, 722 (repro.).
• Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 77 (no. 122A).