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Wallpaper Design

c.1907 (made)
Artist/Maker
C. F. A. Voysey (designer)
Place of origin
England (made)

Design (incomplete) for a wallpaper or textile, showing a formalized plant with green scalloped foliage and small yellow flowers, on a pale ground; Paper squared in pencil

Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Designs
Textiles
Drawings
Object type
Wallpaper design
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour, on paper
Paper
Pencil
Water-Colour
Painting
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Design by C. F. A. Voysey for a wallpaper or textile, showing plant with flowers, London, about 1907
Physical description
Design (incomplete) for a wallpaper or textile, showing a formalized plant with green scalloped foliage and small yellow flowers, on a pale ground; Paper squared in pencil
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 72.5cm
  • Size of sheet width: 53.5cm
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
Inscribed in pencil, For 1907 ; Pencil and watercolour, on paper; Inscribed in pencil For 1907. (Inscribed in pencil.)
Credit line
Given by C.F.A Voysey by request of the Museum
Subject depicted
Flowers
Associated object
E.265-1913 (Version)
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.
  • John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.266-1913

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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