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Wallpaper

ca. 1868 (made)
Artist/Maker

One of five portions of wallpaper with designs of stylized flower-and-leaf motifs within trellises, and heptagonal and triangular shapes; Colour woodblock print, on paper.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Colour woodblock print, on paper
Brief description
One of five portions of wallpaper with designs of stylized flower-and-leaf motifs within trellises, and heptagonal and triangular shapes; Colour woodblock print, on paper; Designed by Kingman (probably George Kingman); Manufactured by Corbière Son & Brindle; ca. 1868.
Physical description
One of five portions of wallpaper with designs of stylized flower-and-leaf motifs within trellises, and heptagonal and triangular shapes; Colour woodblock print, on paper.
Credit line
Corbière Son & Brindle
Object history
Given by Corbière Son & Brindle.

Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum gives only the designer's surname 'Kingman', but suggests that it is 'Probably the same as George Kingman (worked second half of 19th century), a volume of whose designs for carpets is E.544-1956. Kingman attended the R.C.A. Schools.'
Production
Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum gives only the designer's surname 'Kingman', but suggests that it is 'Probably the same as George Kingman (worked second half of 19th century), a volume of whose designs for carpets is E.544-1956. Kingman attended the R.C.A. Schools.'
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Associated objects
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
1106B-1868

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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