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Design for wallpaper

Design Drawing
ca.1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for a wallpaper with ogival bands enclosing a group of three flowers and some leaves which meet at a hexafoil that contains a vase surrounded by leaves and containing five smaller flowers.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for wallpaper
Materials and techniques
Pencil with blue, yellow, red, green and chocolate brown washes.
Brief description
Decorative design by A.W.N. Pugin. Pencil and wash on paper, mid 19th century.
Physical description
Design for a wallpaper with ogival bands enclosing a group of three flowers and some leaves which meet at a hexafoil that contains a vase surrounded by leaves and containing five smaller flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 315mm
  • Width: 294mm
Production typeDesign
Object history
Crace used this wallpaper when he decorated Government House, Perth, Australia in 1863. It was also used at some time in the decoration of the Houses of Parliament as it appears in a photograph of the Members Smoking Room in the House of Commons, published in Wright and Smith 1903, p257. Pugin's design is drawn smaller that full size.
Subjects depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 279.
Collection
Accession number
D.1032-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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