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Wallpaper Design

c.1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Jeffrey & Co. (manufacturer)
C. F. A. Voysey (designer)
Barrett, James (print cutter)
Place of origin
London (made)

Wallpaper design showing flowers, foliage and orange birds, on a pale ground; Ink and watercolour, on paper; Signed in ink C.F.A. Voysey. Architect; inscribed with notes and 45, Tierney Road Streatham Hill. S. W.; with a stamp lettered James Barrett Print Cutter and numbered in ink 3416.

Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Designs
Paintings
Object type
Wallpaper design
Materials and techniques
Ink and watercolour, on paper
Paper
Ink
Water-Colour
Painting
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Design by C. F. A. Voysey for a wallpaper showing a pattern of flowers, foliage and orange birds, London, about 1900
Physical description
Wallpaper design showing flowers, foliage and orange birds, on a pale ground; Ink and watercolour, on paper; Signed in ink C.F.A. Voysey. Architect; inscribed with notes and 45, Tierney Road Streatham Hill. S. W.; with a stamp lettered James Barrett Print Cutter and numbered in ink 3416.
Dimensions
  • Height: 61cm
  • Width: 53.3cm
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.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed in ink 'CFA Voysey. Architect' and inscribed with notes and '45 Tierney Road / Streatham Hill SW'. Numbered in ink '3416' and with a stamp lettered 'James Barrett Print Cutter'. (Signed in ink.)
  • Inscribed with notes and 45, Tierney Road Streatham Hill. S. W.; with a stamp lettered James Barrett Print Cutter and numbered in ink 3416.
Credit line
Given by Mrs Margaret Warner
Object history
Given by Mrs Margaret Warner.
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Birds
Foliage
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 1945, London: HMSO, 1956.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.41-1945

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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