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Wall covering (Wallpaper)
Monuments of Paris
Joseph Dufour
1814-1820
Category
Works on Paper
Creator/Artist/Maker
Joseph Dufour (Artist)
Place of Origin
Paris; France; Europe
Materials
- Tempera
- Paper
Museum Object Number
1969.1094
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1969.1094
Object Name
Wall covering (Wallpaper)
Title
Monuments of Paris
Category
Works on Paper
Creator (Role)
Joseph Dufour (Artist)
Place of Origin
Paris; France; Europe
Date
1814-1820
Subject(s)
- Building view
- Landscape
Materials
- Tempera
- Paper
Techniques
- Woodblock
Dimensions (inches)
16.18 (H) x 19.18 (W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
41.11 (H) x 48.73 (W)
Measurement Notes
Size is of sheets, size in cm's: W: 48.80cm.; H: 40.2cm._41.5cm.
Size of vertical panels: OW: 19 3/16" (48.80cm.).
Original panels, were probably 50.0 cm., in as much as an April 1795 law required that rolls for wallpaper be of that width. Height of sheets vary in measurement due to amount of overlap.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Lynn, Catherine. 1980 Wallpaper in America, From the Seventeenth Century to World War I. 533 p.
• Published as color plate 34, pp. 172-3. Discussed on pp. 195, 204 and 221. An early 20th-century image of "Monuments of Paris" installed at Friendfield, Georgetown vicinity, South Carolina, is illustrated as fig. 9-14, p. 210.