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
306 mm (W); 710 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210781.7
Summary
Wallpaper Box 15. 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. g - maker's mark in margin. 1 of 8 fragments. (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