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No.19 in 'The Decorative Use of Wallpaper'
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No.19 in 'The Decorative Use of Wallpaper'
- Object:
Page in wallpaper pattern book
- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (published)
- Date:
ca. 1910 (published)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour half-tone
- Museum number:
E.2017:78-1990
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3B, shelf Y66 (ABOVE)
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 bathroom is decorated with a so-called 'sanitary' paper, that is, a wallpaper designed to be washable. In this instance the paper imitates glazed brickwork. The ceiling border is Anaglypta, a popular kind of embossed wall-covering of the period, often used to imitate plaster mouldings, cornices and similar features.
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