Wallpaper Design

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Artist/Maker	Weir, Harrison William (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Study of blue-tits and apple blossom, intended as the basis of a design for wallpaper.

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Categories	Wall Coverings Drawings Designs
Object type	Wallpaper design
Materials and techniques	Pencil, watercolour and body colour, on paper Paper Pencil Watercolour Gouache Drawing
Brief description	Design by Harrison William Weir, a study of blue-tits and apple-blossom intended as the basis of a design for a wall-paper to be produced by Jeffrey & Co., 1874.
Physical description	Study of blue-tits and apple blossom, intended as the basis of a design for wallpaper.
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 29.5cm Size of sheet width: 36.9cm 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	'Painted by Harrison Weir for Metford Warner for a Paper Hanging Design, 1874, in which these birds were to be introduced' (Inscribed on the back.)
Credit line	Given by the Guildhall Library
Object history	Intended as the basis of a design for wallpaper to be produced by Jeffrey & Co.
Subjects depicted	Apple Blossom Blue-Tit
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 & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.644-1952

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O593247/wallpaper-design-weir-harrison-william/

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