Wallpaper
John Gregory Crace (London 1809 - Dulwich 1889)
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1848 - 1850
Materials
Machine made paper substrate with ultramarine blue distemper ground and 3 colour blocks to a pattern repeat. Pale blue, white and metallic gold. Metallic gold pigment particles rather than metal foils. ( See Crace papers ). Analysis: Ultramarine blue ground? Cross sections from the boudoir indicate the use of a gold and ultramarine blue paper.
Measurements
85 mm (W); 606 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210781.3
Summary
On Plan Chest - Viewing Sample. Wallpaper with emblems of fleur-de-lys and tudor rose with crown, and trellis in white and gold, with background of ultramarine and mazarine blue. Possibly produced by Crace, after Pugin. c.1850. Mounted on card under acetate. (V&A description). 1848-50: Block printed wallpaper in white & gold on an ultramarine ground. Fleur-de-Lys, Tudor rose & trellis design. Formal Gothic revival style. Pugin/Crace. (Allyson McDermott's description - see "Investigation into the use of wallpapers at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. April 2013.")
Provenance
Campaign of Decoration: 6th & 7th Baronets c 1860. Original Location: First floor corridor West Wing and Library/ Boudoir. This design was produced by Pugin and Crace for the Palace of Westminster c 1850, but in different colourway and using e. This may have been a special order in line with the obvious preference for blue wallpapers at Oxburgh. Diamond registration mark giving a fim date of...
Makers and roles
John Gregory Crace (London 1809 - Dulwich 1889) , designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (London 1812 - Ramsgate 1852), designer Scott Cuthbertson, maker Samuel Scott, wallpaper manufacturer, maker