Pattern 138: "Spray", wallpaper. Historical adaptation, possibly G. F. Bodley, c. 1868-70.
Printed: Jeffrey & Co.
Image: V&A
Spray is one of four wallpapers the Firm adapted from historical patterns between 1868 and 1871 - a period when they were also adapting historic textile patterns. It seems to be based on an eighteenth-century paper.
Of the four wallpapers one, Indian, was likely designed by George Gilbert Scott. The others, including Spray, are usually attributed to Morris but may be by the architect G. F. Bodley.

Indian was covered here: https://twitter.com/EveryMorris/status/1162406377714782208
The other possible Bodley designs are Queen Anne and Venetian.

https://twitter.com/EveryMorris/status/1138122721408274433 https://twitter.com/EveryMorris/status/1232371878796386306
The adaptations were based on earlier wallpaper samples. The V&A object pages for Spray say those samples may have been found by Chambrey (or Chambre) Corker Townshend, another architect in the same circle as Scott, Bodley, and Morris.
According to the same notes, Townshend found the paper on which Spray is based at Palace Anne, an 18th-century country house in County Cork. (Townshend seems to have been from County Cork.)

The V&A holds a c. 1860 photo of Palace Anne. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O219210/photograph-showing-palace-anne-a-photograph-unknown/
Photograph showing Palace Anne, a country house in Baudon, Co. Cork. (Photograph) | V&A Search the...

Photograph showing Palace Anne, a country house in Baudon, Co. Cork. (Photograph), ca. 1860 (made). 19th century photograph of a country house, Bandon, Co. Cork in 1866. Museum Number E.383-1994.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O219210/photograph-showing-palace-anne-a-photograph-unknown/
As can be seen in the threads linked above, the other c. 1868 historic adaptation patterns were available in a wide range of colorways both in the nineteenth century and afterwards.
Spray, however, seems to have only ever had four colorways. One of the c. 1918 Brooklyn Museum sample books shows three: the green-on-blue version also shown above, a pink, and a blue-on-blue. The V&A also holds one in blue-on-white.
Spray, however, seems to have only ever had four colorways. One of the c. 1918 Brooklyn Museum sample books shows three: the green-on-blue version also shown above, a pink, and a blue-on-blue. The V&A also holds one in blue-on-white.
Spray, however, seems to have only ever had four colorways. One of the c. 1918 Brooklyn Museum sample books shows three: the green-on-blue version also shown above, a pink, and a blue-on-blue. The V&A also holds one in blue-on-white.
Spray, however, seems to have only ever had four colorways. One of the c. 1918 Brooklyn Museum sample books shows three: the green-on-blue version also shown above, a pink, and a blue-on-blue. The V&A also holds one in blue-on-white.
Spray, however, seems to have only ever had four colorways. One of the c. 1918 Brooklyn Museum sample books shows three: the green-on-blue version also shown above, a pink, and a blue-on-blue. The V&A also holds one in blue-on-white.
The larger samples held at the V&A give an idea of the full repeat: as well as the central loose meander of flower sprays, there is a tighter stripe of flower and leaf forms where the wallpaper strips would meet.
The larger samples held at the V&A give an idea of the full repeat: as well as the central loose meander of flower sprays, there is a tighter stripe of flower and leaf forms where the wallpaper strips would meet.
The larger samples held at the V&A give an idea of the full repeat: as well as the central loose meander of flower sprays, there is a tighter stripe of flower and leaf forms where the wallpaper strips would meet.
I tried my best to create an image of the full repeat, but I couldn't figure out where the stripes overlap - it's likely that the samples are slightly trimmed and therefore missing a bit of the repeat.
In the process of the research for this thread I got very interested in the Townshend family, and particularly Cambre's daughter Charlotte, who became a prominent Arts & Crafts stained glass artist - I'll probably write a blog post on them soon, and will link it here.
My ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/smleonard 

Object links:

V&A
Green on blue
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O249497/spray-wallpaper-sample-morris-william/
Pink
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O249475/spray-wallpaper-sample-morris-william/
Blue on white
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O758501/spray-wallpaper-grundy-william-morris/

Brooklyn Museum sample book
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/97901
Spray | Grundy, William Morris | V&A Search the Collections

Spray (Wallpaper) by Grundy, William Morris, c.1870s (made). William Morris. "Spray". Blue on white floral wallpaper.. Museum Number E.2807-1927.

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