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Fox and Grape

Designer (British, 1860 - 1932)
Maker (British, 1861 - 1940)
Additional Title(s)
  • Squirrel
  • Design for Texile
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Dateca. 1898
Mediumwatercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (28.6 x 20.6 cm.)
DescriptionRed and grey squirrels running through blue and green grape vines, with large clumps of grapes interspersed at intervals. Verso shows designs for furniture and moulding in graphite.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextDearle's design very closely resembles earlier Morris patterns incorporating birds. In both Morris's and Dearle's designs, the animals face one another at intervals along sets of interlocking ogees. Originally entitled Fox and Grape after the Aesop fable, the name was changed to Squirrel because of the indeterminate nature of the animals in this popular pattern. Once the initial design was completed, it would be enlarged onto graph paper so that punched cards could be made for the jacquard looms.
Status
Not on view
Object number2000.5.68
Fox and Grape
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1898
Object number: 2000.5.69
Fox and Grape
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1898
Object number: 2000.5.71
Squirrel
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1898
Object number: 2000.5.905
Apple Tree; Grape Vine; Pomegranate Tree; Plum Tree
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1895
Object number: 2000.5.446
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1887
Object number: 2000.5.85
Humming Bird or Crested Bird
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1906
Object number: 2000.5.1144
Rambling Rose
John Henry Dearle
1912-1917
Object number: 2000.5.1137
Design for Screen
John Henry Dearle
n.d.
Object number: 2000.5.599
Design for Wallpaper
Duncan Dearle
n.d.
Object number: 2000.5.1130
Grapes
William Henry Hunt
1838
Object number: 59.55.748