Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Home Beautiful: A Heraldic Wallpaper Design, 1902


The Victoria & Albert Museum


This pencil and watercolor drawing is a design for a “Heraldic” wallpaper which depicts an eagle motif, in black and white, topped with red coronets, on a pale ground peppered with Tudor roses. Made in England in 1902 by C.F.A. Voysey, the paper was meant to be produced by Essen & Co. in 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

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