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Epoch

Wallpaper
1964 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of 'Prologue' vinyl wallpaper; Screen print, vinyl paper.
Within a pattern book containing 151 specimens (E.2045-2195-1980), including different colourways; each with title, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; some sheets interleaved with photographs of the patterns and notes concerning them; bound in plastic-covered boards.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Epoch (series title)
  • Prologue (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Screen print, vinyl paper
Brief description
Specimen of 'Prologue' vinyl wallpaper; Screen print, vinyl paper; Within a pattern book containing 151 specimens (E.2045-2195-1980); Produced by John Line & Sons Ltd.; England; 1964.
Physical description
Specimen of 'Prologue' vinyl wallpaper; Screen print, vinyl paper.
Within a pattern book containing 151 specimens (E.2045-2195-1980), including different colourways; each with title, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; some sheets interleaved with photographs of the patterns and notes concerning them; bound in plastic-covered boards.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 51.5cm
  • Size of volume width: 50.6cm
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
(Title, serial number etc in letterpress on the back.)
Credit line
Given by Shand Kydd Ltd
Object history
Given by Shand Kydd Ltd.
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.2087-1980

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