Cretonne

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Artist/Maker	Lightbown, Aspinall & Co. (manufacturer) Unknown (maker)
Place of origin	England (manufactured)

Panel of 'Cretonne' wallpaper design.

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Categories	Wall Coverings Prints
Object type	Wallpaper
Title	Cretonne (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques	Colour machine print from five engraved rollers Paper Colour Machine Print Engraving (Printing Process)
Brief description	Portion of 'Cretonne' wallpaper design; Produced by Lightbown, Aspinall & Co.; 1910.
Physical description	Panel of 'Cretonne' wallpaper design.
Dimensions	Panel height: 73cm Panel width: 51cm 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.
Credit line	Given by the Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd
Object history	Given by the Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd.
Bibliographic references	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. Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings Accessions 1934 London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1935
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1832-1934

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Record created	January 20, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O183885/cretonne-wallpaper-unknown/

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