Design for wallpaper
Design Drawing
ca.1850 (made)
ca.1850 (made)
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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
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| Title | Design 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. |
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| Production type | Design |
| 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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 279.
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| Accession number | D.1032-1908 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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