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Wallpaper

late 17th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This fragment of late 17th century paper was found lining deed box at Clandon Park, a country house in Surrey. Other samples of the same design have been found on the walls of the Shrubbery, a house in Epsom, also in Surrey. The design is similar to the kinds of embroidered pictures which were fashionable in this period; it may have been based on a contemporary tapestry, an embroidery or a painted cloth hanging. There is another fragment of the same paper, from the same source, in the collection (see E.2232A-1974). This paper is related to another sheet showing a house and garden with a woman fishing, also in the collection (E.405-1968).


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woodblock print on paper
Brief description
Fragment of lining or wallpaper featuring part of a stag-hunting scene; Woodblock print on paper; From a deed box found at Clandon Park, Surrey; English; Late 17th century.
Physical description
Fragment of lining or wallpaper featuring a building, a tree, birds and a peacock; part of a stag-hunting scene; Woodblock print on paper.
Dimensions
  • Irregular height: 29.4cm
  • Irregular width: 29.4cm
Dimensions from: Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Credit line
Given by Mr Alfred Newett
Object history
Given by John B. Fowler.
Provenance: A deed box found at Clandon Park, Surrey.

The same scene with variant details is shown on a wallpaper, said to have come from Aldford House (now demolished), Park Lane, London (Entwisle (1970) pl 26), and now in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. This has additional hand-colouring, as has another piece at Colonial Williamsburg, Viginia, USA, (see no 29), and also a third piece, discovered recently at The Shrubbery, Epsom, Surrey. See Greysmith, pl 31.
Production
Provenance: A deed box found at Clandon Park, Surrey.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This fragment of late 17th century paper was found lining deed box at Clandon Park, a country house in Surrey. Other samples of the same design have been found on the walls of the Shrubbery, a house in Epsom, also in Surrey. The design is similar to the kinds of embroidered pictures which were fashionable in this period; it may have been based on a contemporary tapestry, an embroidery or a painted cloth hanging. There is another fragment of the same paper, from the same source, in the collection (see E.2232A-1974). This paper is related to another sheet showing a house and garden with a woman fishing, also in the collection (E.405-1968).
Associated object
Bibliographic reference
Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Collection
Accession number
E.2232-1974

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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