Wallpaper
ca. 1509 (made)
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Reconstruction of a piece of wallpaper with a conventional pomegranate design; incorporated within the design, the letter H and a goose (a rebus of Hugo Goes); Machine print on paper.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Machine print on paper |
| Brief description | Reconstruction of a piece of wallpaper with a conventional pomegranate design; incorporated within the design, the letter 'H' and a goose (a rebus of Hugo Goes); Machine print on paper; Provenance: The Master's Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge; Reconstruction by Horace Warner of Jeffrey & Co.; English; ca. 1509. |
| Physical description | Reconstruction of a piece of wallpaper with a conventional pomegranate design; incorporated within the design, the letter H and a goose (a rebus of Hugo Goes); Machine print on paper. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir Charles Allom |
| Object history | Given by Sir Charles Allom. Provenance: The Master's Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge The pattern was printed on the back of sheets of paper with letterpress and contains certain references to the first year of Henry VIII's reign (1509). This was the year in which The Master's Lodge, Christ's Church College, is known to have been built. The reconstruction was the work of Horace Warner of Jeffrey & Co. |
| Production | Provenance: The Master's Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge. |
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| Associated object | E.539-1912 (Copy) |
| 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. |
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| Accession number | E.1783-1914 |
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| Record created | November 28, 2008 |
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