Watercolour
mid 19th century (painted)
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This room is decorated and furnished in the Biedermeier style, which was very popular in Germany, Austria and elswhere from the 1820s to the 1840s. This style includes the use of light colours and the overall simplicity of the decorations. The simple pretty flower-sprigged wallpaper is in the French style, however, and may have been made in France.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | View of a bourgeois interior decorated in the Biedermeier style. By unknown German or Austrian artist, mid-19th century |
| Physical description | A view of an interior, possibly a sitting room, decorated in the Biedermeier style , and with a simple flower spigged wallpaper. |
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| Credit line | Given by P. J. Gordon, Esq. |
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| Summary | This room is decorated and furnished in the Biedermeier style, which was very popular in Germany, Austria and elswhere from the 1820s to the 1840s. This style includes the use of light colours and the overall simplicity of the decorations. The simple pretty flower-sprigged wallpaper is in the French style, however, and may have been made in France. |
| Bibliographic reference | Gill Saunders. Wallpaper in Interior Decoration. V&A Publications, London, 2002. pp.50-1. pl.41 |
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| Accession number | E.876-1982 |
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| Record created | November 19, 2002 |
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