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Wallpaper

1837 (made)
Artist/Maker
Willement (designer)
Place of origin
England (made)
Charlecote Park (paper hung)

Portion of flock wallpaper with a strap-work design, dark-red on a lighter red ground; Flock on paper.


Object details

Category
Wall Coverings
Object type
Wallpaper
Materials and techniques
Flock on paper
Paper
Flock
Flocking
Brief description
Portion of flock wallpaper with a strap-work design, dark-red on a lighter red ground; Flock on paper; Designed by Thomas Willement; Provenance: Charlecote Park, Warwickshire; England; 1837.
Physical description
Portion of flock wallpaper with a strap-work design, dark-red on a lighter red ground; Flock on paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 56.5cm
  • Width: 57.7cm
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.
Credit line
Given by the Hon. Mrs Brian Fairfax-Lucy
Object history
Given by the Hon. Mrs Brian Fairfax-Lucy.
This paper is from the library in the 19th-century wing of Charlecote. It is illustrated and referred to by Christopher Hussey, Country Life (May 1952), p 1329. An order for this pattern in a green colourway is in the Cowtan order book for 1837 (see Pattern Book E.1862-1885-1946).
Subject depicted
Strapwork
Associated object
E.23197-1957 (Version)
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
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.23198-1957

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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