This tapestry, Love and the Pilgrim, was made in 1909 by Morris & Co and although Edward Burne-Jones died in 1898, its design and that of its pair, The Pilgrim in the Garden, was taken directly from his oil paintings. The subject was inspired by The Romaunt of the Rose, a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. This design had originally been conceived in the 1870s as one of five embroidered panels. The cloaked Pilgrim is being helped from a thicket of brambles by the winged figure of Love, who holds an arrow in her hand.
A photograph of this tapestry is found in the Morris & Co Showroom Catalogue, 1940P604.1, as number 154.
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