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Wallpaper Design

c.1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
C. F. A. Voysey (designer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Design for a wallpaper, showing a horizontal line of formalized, pairs of pale-green birds, perched amidst trees and mistletoe, with a background of black, white and yellow vertical stripes; Pencil and watercolour, on paper; Signed in ink C. F. A. V and inscribed with notes.


Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Designs
Object type
Wallpaper design
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour, on paper
Paper
Pencil
Water-Colour
Painting
Drawing
Brief description
Design by C. F. A. Voysey for a wallpaper, showing birds and foliage, with vertical stripes, London, about 1900
Physical description
Design for a wallpaper, showing a horizontal line of formalized, pairs of pale-green birds, perched amidst trees and mistletoe, with a background of black, white and yellow vertical stripes; Pencil and watercolour, on paper; Signed in ink C. F. A. V and inscribed with notes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 66.6cm
  • Width: 53.3cm
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
Signed in ink C. F. A. V and inscribed with notes.
Credit line
Given by C.F.A Voysey by request of the Museum
Subjects depicted
Symmetry
Birds
Stripes
Mistletoe
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.262-1913

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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