Wallpaper
probably John Gregory Crace (London 1809 - Dulwich 1889)
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1840
Materials
Machine made paper substrate. Ultramarine blue hand laid distemper ground. Min 5 colour blocks required per pattern repeat: 1. Foliate background in pale blue. 2. Buff Fleur de lys. 3. Golden coronet. 4 Red and green rose ( single block spot coloured ) 5. Cream Outline. Cream outline likely to have been printed using an inlaid metal block. Analysis: Ultramarine blue? Ground applied by hand. Chrome green leaves, yellow ochre coronets, cadmium red or vermillion roses?
Measurements
566 mm (W); 285 mm (Length); 567 mm (W); 290 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210780.6
Summary
Wallpaper Box 15. Emblems of guardsman-red Tudor rose with green leaves, buff crown and banana-yellow fleur-de-lys. Background of ultramarine with smalt-blue pattering of leaves and stems. Possibly produced by Crace, after Pugin. c.1840. d-o - fragments, p - collection of 24 cut ends. (V&A description). Block printed in distemper in six colours on an ultramarine distemper ground. Rose and coronet design on a scrolling foliate background in Gothic revival style. (Allyson McDermott's description - See "Investigation into the use of wallpapers at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. April 2013").
Provenance
Campaign of Decoration: 6th and 7th Baronets c 1860s. Original Location: Allyson McDermott continuing research. In the style of Pugin, a design probably then developed by Crace for more commercial use. Many of these blocks were designed to be interchangeable and could be used with metals, flocks and distempers on a variety of grounds.
Makers and roles
probably John Gregory Crace (London 1809 - Dulwich 1889) , designer style of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (London 1812 - Ramsgate 1852), designer William Woollams, maker Hayward & Son , maker Scott Cuthbertson, maker