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Wallpaper

ca. 1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dufour & Cie (manufacturer)
Place of origin
France (made)

Wallpaper panel with a figure of the goddess Diana as a huntress; Rolled colour woodblock print, on paper.

Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Prints
Object type
Wallpaper
Materials and techniques
Colour print from woodblocks, on paper
Paper
Colour Woodblock Print
Brief description
Wallpaper panel with a figure of the goddess Diana as a huntress; Colour woodblock print, on paper; Anonymous; possibly produced by Dufour & Cie; France; ca. 1840.
Physical description
Wallpaper panel with a figure of the goddess Diana as a huntress; Rolled colour woodblock print, on paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 183cm
  • Width: 57.3cm
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.
Credit line
Given by Mr William McEwan through the Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd.
Object history
Given by Mr William McEwan through the Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd.

This panel is one of a series of five goddesses: Hebe, Juno, Ceres, Venus and Diana.
It is reproduced in McClelland, Nancy V. Historic Wallpapers from their Inception to the Introduction of Machinery. Philadelphia and London, 1924. plate on p 177, described as circa 1830, printed by Dufour.

Olligs, H. Tapeten. Ihre Geschichte bis zur Gegenwart. Brunswick. 1969-70., vol II, fig 347, shows two figures from another series, with the same pedestals, entitled 'Die Erdteile', produced by E. Delicourt, printed later than 1830 and probably copies of designs by Dufour et Leroy.

See also V&A object E.86-1937.
Subject depicted
Diana
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 and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937, London: Board of Education, 1938.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.85-1937

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Record createdMarch 3, 2009
Record URL
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