Fruit Billett is an original watercolour design, hand painted in-house at Liberty. The rich artwork was inspired by the layout of a popular 1995 botanical fruit painting taken from the Liberty archive. The print illustrates the wonderful depth of shade, with the fruits illuminated from the ground as seen in Old Master Dutch paintings. Soon after opening on London's Regent Street in 1875, trading exotic goods and textiles from the Far East, Arthur Liberty began working with local artisans and manufacturers to produce Liberty's own textiles and objets d'art. By the 1890s Liberty Art Fabrics were a byword for the very best of Avant Garde textile design.
