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Design for textiles or wallpaper

Design Drawing
ca.1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design (on four sheets) for a wallpaper or chintz. Full-size design (on 2 sheets joined) of one motif of the pattern shown in D.794-1908, but drawn to a slightly larger scale using the colouring marked there as 'original'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for textiles or wallpaper
Materials and techniques
Pencil with red, yellow, green and blue washes
Brief description
A.W.N. Pugin, Design for wallpaper or textiles identified by J.D. Crace as being intended for the Palace of Westminster
Physical description
Design (on four sheets) for a wallpaper or chintz. Full-size design (on 2 sheets joined) of one motif of the pattern shown in D.794-1908, but drawn to a slightly larger scale using the colouring marked there as 'original'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 710mm
  • Width: 540mm
Production typeDesign
Object history
This design is amongst those apparently identified by J.D. Crace as being intended for the Palace of Westminster though there is no positive evidence of this. It is not known if this pattern was ever executed.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 274.
Collection
Accession number
D.782-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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