Wallpaper
ca. 1800 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This wallpaper was found in La Haute Ville, a house in Vaison, France, formerly the home of the Marquis de Taulignan. This is an early and relatively unsophisticated version of the 19th-century fashion for wallpapers printed to imitate draperies and other fabric wallcoverings. As the fashion continued into the 1830s, papers were produced with increasingly lavish and convincing trompe l'oeil (eye-tricking) effects.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour woodblock print, on paper |
| Brief description | Fragment of wallpaper printed to imitate festooned fringed drapery, with matching border paper; Colour woodblock print, on paper; Anonymous; Provenance: A house in La Haute Ville, Vaison, France, formerly the residence of the Marquis de Taulignan; French; ca. 1800. |
| Physical description | Torn fragment of wallpaper printed in shades of blue, black and buff, to imitate festooned fringed drapery, with a matching border paper, attached at the top edge; Colour woodblock print, on paper. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Tremayne |
| Object history | Given by Mrs Tremayne. Provenance: A house in La Haute Ville, Vaison, France, formerly the residence of the Marquis de Taulignan. |
| Production | Provenance: A house in La Haute Ville, Vaison, France, formerly the residence of the Marquis de Taulignan. |
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| Summary | This wallpaper was found in La Haute Ville, a house in Vaison, France, formerly the home of the Marquis de Taulignan. This is an early and relatively unsophisticated version of the 19th-century fashion for wallpapers printed to imitate draperies and other fabric wallcoverings. As the fashion continued into the 1830s, papers were produced with increasingly lavish and convincing trompe l'oeil (eye-tricking) effects. |
| Associated object | E.1039-1925 (Colourway) |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1042-1925 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2002 |
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