[3] En route for Japan in 1876 he delivered a series of three lectures in the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art and supervised the manufacture of wallpapers to his design for Wilson Fennimore.

He was commissioned by Messrs Tiffany of New York to form a collection, whilst in Japan, of art objects both old and new that should illustrate the manufactures of that country.

He represented the South Kensington Museum whilst in Japan, and was received at court by the Emperor, who ordered Dresser to be treated as a guest of the nation – all doors were open to him.

Much of his other work remains to be identified, although wallpaper designs for American, and textiles for French and German manufacturers have recently been located.

[8] Dresser died in Mulhouse in 1904, during a business trip in which he intended to sell designs to local industries.