Wallpaper
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
c 1850
Materials
Paper, card, wood, glass, metal, Dresden trim
Measurements
478 x 413 mm
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1150435.65.1
Summary
Wallpaper and attachments. The wallpaper and attachments from the east wall of the dolls' house nursery. Blue washed wallpaper is the base on to which has been glued strips of striped paper in shades of gold and brown around the two windows and as a border at the top of the wall (reminiscent of striped borders in Erddig's Chapel). Also glued to the wallpaper is a vignette LE PETIT POUCET, featuring two little girls in Elizabethan dress and a little boy in outsized boots on a path among flowers. The vignette is surrounded by a glued on border of gilded cardboard, possibly Dresden trim, trees and foliage, surmounted by a damaged picture of a posy of flowers, topped by a bird in flight. Above each window is a wooden pelmet attached by tacks to the wall, each one having a pasted on gold and white paper border. Between the windows, attached to the wall by a tack, is an oval mirror with an ornate black frame and a single sconce. At the left hand edge of the paper, on the carcass of the dolls' house, there is cream paper with a tiny red star and dot trellis design, glued to the carcass and disappearing under the blue paper.
Marks and inscriptions
On vignette above windows: LE PETIT POUCET