- No.17 in 'The Decorative Use of Wallpaper'
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No.17 in 'The Decorative Use of Wallpaper'
- Object:
Page from a wallpaper sample book
- Place of origin:
England (published)
- Date:
ca. 1910 (published)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour half-tone
- Museum number:
E.2017:70-1990
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3B, shelf HIGH, box 2
Wallpaper manufacturers and decorating firms have published pattern books showing rooms decorated with specific wallpapers and matching furnishings since the late 19th century. Here a cut-out floral frieze and borders have been applied to a paper described as 'a simple diaper in satinette', framing each section of the wall. The ceiling border is Anaglypta, a popular kind of embossed wall-covering of the period, often used to imitate plaster mouldings, cornices and other features.
