Friday 15 February 2013

Max on Site

Many of the projects that we undertake are carried out at customer premises. Our clients come back to us time and time again because we place an overriding emphasis on developing friendly and long-term relationships.
Below is a scan of a leaving card given to one of our operatives who was on-site undertaking a scanning project at the archives of a major London University



William Morris Digitisation

The William Morris Society was established in 1955. The Society is based at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, overlooking the Thames, which was Morris’s London home for the last eighteen years of his life.
Two years ago the Society were delighted to receive a donation from a local resident of two padded wooden boxes labelled ‘Costume and Jewellery’. The boxes contained glass lantern slides which it is believed were prepared for a lecture given by May Morris. May was the youngest daughter of William Morris.
Amongst the lantern slides of exquisite jewellery and embroidery are a number of family photographs including images of William Morris’s homes at Kelmscott Manor and the Red House in Bexleyheath. May Morris lived in the shadow of her illustrious father but was a very talented lady and an important figure in her own right within the Arts & Crafts Movement. Her love affair with George Bernard Shaw was said to have led to a divorce from her husband Henry Halliday Sparling; the secretary of the Socialist League in 1894.
The personal photographs in this collection include an original photographic negative of William Morris’s wife Jane Morris. This picture was taken in July 1865 in the garden of the famous artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Cheyne Walk, London. The photograph was taken by the photographer John Parsons but closely directed by Rossetti. Jane Morris became closely attached to Rossetti, becoming a favourite muse and the inspiration for many of his paintings. Their relationship is reputed to have started around 1865 and lasted on differing levels until his death in 1882.
Max is very pleased to be able to digitise these compelling set of original photographs which provide such a unique insight in the life of William Morris.

Images reproduced with the kind permission of The William Morris Society.

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