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On Display: House - Dining Room Hall
Wall covering (Dado wallpaper)
1810-1830
Category
Works on Paper
Place of Origin
France; Europe
Materials
- Tempera
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1969.1104
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1969.1104
Object Name
Wall covering (Dado wallpaper)
Category
Works on Paper
Place of Origin
France; Europe
Date
1810-1830
Subject(s)
- Landscape
Materials
- Tempera
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Woodblock
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
22.13 (H) x 25.44 (W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
56.2 (H) x 64.61 (W)
Measurement Notes
OH and OW.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Manuscript: Dunbar, Jeff. "Dining Room Hall Wallpaper". 29 p.
Book: Lynn, Catherine. 1980 Wallpaper in America, From the Seventeenth Century to World War I. 533 p.
• Dado papers are discussed on pp. 227 & 234-5. A similar dado paper can be seen with Zuber's "Isola Bella" in an 1855 advertisment for Sutphen and Breed of New York; fig. 9-25, p. 219.