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Wallpaper

1878 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portion of a wallpaper dado showing a fish in a roundel within a classical panel with scale-pattern, a border of mouldings of seashells running below and architectural mouldings and foliate festoons running above, in gold; Colour print from wood blocks, on paper.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Colour woodblock print, on paper
Brief description
Portion of a wallpaper dado showing a fish in a roundel within a classical panel with scale-pattern, a border of mouldings of seashells running below and architectural mouldings and foliate festoons running above, in gold; Designed by Walter Crane; Colour print from wood blocks, on paper; Produced by Jeffrey & Co.; England; 1878.
Physical description
Portion of a wallpaper dado showing a fish in a roundel within a classical panel with scale-pattern, a border of mouldings of seashells running below and architectural mouldings and foliate festoons running above, in gold; Colour print from wood blocks, on paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 69.2cm
  • Width: 49cm
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
V / 12 / 10 Rd D (As a monogram in top-left corner of design.)
Credit line
Given by Mr Emslie John Horniman
Object history
Given by Mr Emslie John Horniman.
This dado was intended for use with E.595-1925.
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, Accessions 1915, London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916.
Collection
Accession number
E.4031-1915

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Record createdApril 3, 2009
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