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Wall covering (Wallpaper)
Leopard
1765-1780
Category
Works on Paper
Place of Origin
England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Distemper
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1969.1100.002 A- P
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1969.1100.002 A- P
Object Name
Wall covering (Wallpaper)
Title
Leopard
Category
Works on Paper
Place of Origin
England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1765-1780
Materials
- Distemper
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Woodblock
Dimensions (inches)
18.375 (H) x 48 (W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
46.672 (H) x 121.92 (W)
Measurement Notes
H and W of (f). H taken 8" from left. W at top. Repeat W: 21.625 in. (54.9 cm). Chain intervals and laid lines per cm not measured.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Entwisle, E. A. 1960 A Literary History of Wallpapers. 211 p.
• Similarly patterned paper (in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, also in Lynn), illustrated as fig. 38.Book: Lynn, Catherine. 1980 Wallpaper in America, From the Seventeenth Century to World War I. 533 p.
• For a similarly patterned paper (in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt), see fig. 3-6, p. 73. This tax-stamped English paper, c. 1765, was found in a German castle, Schloss Weikersheim, in Württemberg.Book: Sugden, Alan Victor & Edmondson, John Ludlow. 1925 A History of English Wallpaper, 1509-1914. 281 p.
• Tax stamps discussed on pp. 47-9.