Design for textiles or wallpaper
Design Drawing
1850 (made)
1850 (made)
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Design (on 4 sheets) for a wallpaper or a chintz. Full-size design for a hunting motif in a continuous vertical pattern of a greyhound chasing a bird. The bird is enclosed by the curved top of an ogee stem which has a pine-cone motif at its centre. The greyhound is jumping up the outside edge of the stem. Two different colour schemes are used. The lower half of the design has been squared.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Design for textiles or wallpaper |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil with red, yellow, green and blue washes. |
| Brief description | A.W.N. Pugin, Design for textiles or wallpaper identified by J.D. Crace as being intended for the Palace of Westminster |
| Physical description | Design (on 4 sheets) for a wallpaper or a chintz. Full-size design for a hunting motif in a continuous vertical pattern of a greyhound chasing a bird. The bird is enclosed by the curved top of an ogee stem which has a pine-cone motif at its centre. The greyhound is jumping up the outside edge of the stem. Two different colour schemes are used. The lower half of the design has been squared. |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed 'original colouring', 'new colouring' and signed and dated in monogram 'AW Pugin / 1850'. Inscribed in J.G. Crace's hand 'Chintz and Paper'. |
| Object history | This pattern is identified by J.D. Crace as being intended for the Palace of Westminster though there is no positive evidence for this. It is not known if this pattern was ever executed. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 274.
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.794-1908 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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