Versions
The Adoration proved the most popular of all Morris & Co. tapestries for both church and domestic settings. Ten versions were woven, each with a different border design:
- 1890 for Exeter College, Oxford, still in the chapel there.
- 1890–94, for Wilfred Scawen Blunt
- 1894, for the Corporation of Manchester, now in the Manchester Metropolitan University
- 1895 for the Eton College Chapel, still in situ.
- 1900 for the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, still in situ.
- 1901 for Sir George Brokman, now in the Art Gallery of South Australia
- 1902 for S. I. Shchukin, in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
- 1904 for Guillaume Mallet, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
- 1906 for the Colman Family of Carrow Abbey, Norwich, now in the Castle Museum, Norwich
- 1907 for Roker Church, Sunderland, still in situ
The 1904 version, lately in the collection of Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Berge, was to be auctioned in February 2009, but at the last minute was withdrawn from the sale by Berge and donated to the Musée d'Orsay.
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