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Wallpaper

ca. 1820 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of flock wallpaper border with stylized gold foliage and flowers on a red ground; Stamped on the back with the Excise duty stamp and Foreign Paper Customs 48; Colour woodblock print and flock, on paper.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Colour woodblock print and flock, on paper
Brief description
Specimen of flock wallpaper border with stylized gold foliage and flowers on a red ground; Stamped with the Excise duty stamp; Anonymous; France; ca. 1820.
Physical description
Specimen of flock wallpaper border with stylized gold foliage and flowers on a red ground; Stamped on the back with the Excise duty stamp and Foreign Paper Customs 48; Colour woodblock print and flock, on paper.
DimensionsFrom a group of 'various sizes'. 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.
Marks and inscriptions
Foreign Paper Customs 48 (Stamped on the back with the Excise duty stamp.)
Credit line
Given by Mr A. L. Cowtan in memory of his father, Arthur Barnard Cowtan, OBE
Object history
Given by Mr A. L. Cowtan in memory of his father, Arthur Barnard Cowtan, OBE.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • 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.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1939, published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, London, 1950
Collection
Accession number
E.99-1939

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Record createdFebruary 26, 2009
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