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SPENSER’ - taken from Edmund Spenser’s epic poem <i>The Faerie Queene </i>\n\r\nText for Summer reads ‘O JUNE / THAT WE DESIRED SO xx / THE TWITTER OF THE / BIRDS AND ALL THY THOUS / AND PEACEFUL HAPPY / W. MORRIS WORDS.’ - taken from William Morris’s epic poem <i>The Earthly Paradise </i>\n\r\nText for Autumn reads ‘THEN CAME THE AUT- / -UMN ALL IN YELLOW CLAD / xxx LADEN WITH FRUIT. / E. SPENCER’ - taken from Edmund Spenser’s epic poem <i>The Faerie Queene</i>\n\r\nText for Winter reads ‘WHEN NATURE SHR / OUDS HERSELF ENTRAN / CED IN DEEP TRANQUILITY / R. SOUTHEY’, taken from Robert Southey’s poem ‘Written on the First of December’ (1793)\n\nLinen with silk embroidery. 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Originally the embroideries were worked at homes, usually by the designers’ female relatives. Later, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau embroidery was also made professionally and came to be known as Art Needlework. Societies such as The Royal School of Art Needlework, founded in 1872, produced, sold and exhibited pieces, as well as selling designs and partially completed embroideries to home embroiderers. In 1873 this School held an exhibition at the South Kensington Museum, which would become the V&A.\r\n\r\nThis former folding screen is a striking example of Art Nouveau design. It includes quotations from poems and in this way points towards the rich connections which existed between the design movements in question and literature. \n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Four separate panels from a folding screen depicting the seasons and quoting from epic poem <i>The Faerie Queene</i> (1590 and 1596) by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), epic poem The Earthly Paradise (1868 and 1870) by William Morris (1834-1896) and poem ‘Written on the First of December’ (1793) by Robert Southey (1774-1843), silk embroidered on linen, probably British, ca. 1900-1914","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.76:1-2019","T.76:2-2019","T.76:3-2019","T.76:4-2019"],"accessionNumberNum":"76","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":2019,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-23","recordCreationDate":"2018-09-05","availableToBook":true}}