Wallpaper
style of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (London 1812 - Ramsgate 1852)
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1860
Materials
Machine made paper substrate. Embossed and grounded in a mid brown distemper. Gilded with metallic powder, polished. Block printed in green and crimson machine cut flock. Analysis: See Crace papers.
Measurements
177 mm (W); 290 mm (D); 150 mm (W); 193 mm (D); 260 mm (W); 420 mm (D); 270 mm (W); 195 mm (D)
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210773.5
Summary
Wallpaper Box 14. Flock wallpaper, design of ivy leaves enclosed in quatrefoils of cardinal red and bronze-green flock, and gold trellis. c.1830-40. c-f - 4 fragments, g-h - 2 small fragments, found behind mirror in Henry Bedingfeld's Dining Room 1992. (V&A description). c. 1860 - Foliate Gothic design, block printed on imitation leather embossed paper, grounded in brown and block printed in gold with green & crimson flock. (Allyson McDermott's description).
Provenance
Campaign of Decoration: 6th / 7th Baronet c 1860s. Original Location: Dining Room. East Wing. Historical Comments & References: see Allyson McDermott's report: "Investigation into the use of wallpapers at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. April 2013."
Makers and roles
style of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (London 1812 - Ramsgate 1852), designer possibly Williams Coopers Boyle & Co (wallpapers) , maker