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Date c. 1860 - c. 1900
Related Artists William Morris • Arthur Wesley Dow • Walter Crane • Edward Burne-Jones • Ford Madox Brown • Charles Robert Ashbee • Philip Speakman Webb • Sir George James Frampton • Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo • Josef Hoffmann • Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson

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