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Peacock and Dragon

William Morris · Design 1878

Provenance

Ownership history

Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, Textile Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, by Apr. 10, 1985 [Incoming receipt RX15472, Apr. 10, 1985; copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 50, Apr. 5, 1989- Jan. 31, 1990
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 50, Sept. 23, 1999- Feb. 2, 2000
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 50, Jan. 21- May 15, 2003.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/apostlesbeauty/"><em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em></a>, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 94.
Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9325"> Morris and Company: The Business of Beauty</a>, Dec. 18, 2021–June 13, 2022, no cat.

Literature

Judith A. Barter, ed., <em>Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 19, 47, 49–51, 197, cat. 94, fig. 4 (ill.).

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