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By the late 1860s it had become fashionable to divide the walls into three sections, and to use different but complementary wallpaper patterns for each section. This panel was made for display purposes and has all three patterns printed as one piece.<br><br><b>Ownership & Use</b><br>Wallpaper decorations of this kind were first described by Charles Eastlake in his guide to home decorating <i>Hints on Household Taste</i>, which was first published in 1868. He approved of them because he thought that having only one pattern on the wall could be monotonous. By the 1880s this style of decorating was commonplace. In their advertisements Jeffrey & Co. offered a great variety of designs for dado, filling and frieze suitable for private residences.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>The dado was the bottom section of the wall, below the chair rail; the filling was the deepest section, between the chair rail and the picture rail; above this was the narrowest band, the frieze. Paintings were hung from the picture rail, with the filling as their background, so this was generally the simplest and most restrained pattern of the three. In 1886 a writer in the <i>Journal of Decorative Art</i> set out the basic principles for designing such papers. He said, 'The frieze should be light and lively; richer colours should be employed than in the filling, and it should be as striking to the eye as the dado'.","physicalDescription":"Decorators specimen of wallpaper (dado, filling and frieze); floral and foliate designs and a geometric pattern in yellow and gold, with a border featuring pomegranate fruit and branches; The general flavour of this ensemble of papers is Anglo-Japanese, although very few individual motifs can be directly linked to the Far East; Colour print from wood blocks, on paper.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Talbert, Bruce James","id":"A5720"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":"partly designed by?"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Jeffrey & Co.","id":"A9139"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"block printing","id":"AAT53289"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Colour block print on paper","categories":[{"text":"Wall coverings","id":"THES48878"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AN3931","2006AU9097","2006AN3928"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"MM","shelf":"12","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"wallpaper","id":""}],[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1875-1878","earliest":"1870-01-01","latest":"1879-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"180","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"51.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description;","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"<i>A 448 / Frieze . . . 18d. per yd. / Paper . . . 12d. \" / Dado Border . 9d. \" / Dado . . . 12d. \"</i>","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered on small piece of paper attached to the margin above the design."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Decorators specimen of wallpaper (dado, filling and frieze); floral and foliate designs and a geometric pattern in yellow and gold, with a border featuring pomegranate fruit and branches; Colour print from wood blocks, on paper; (Partly?) designed by Bruce James Talbert; Produced by Jeffrey & Co.; England; ca. 1875-1878.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. <u>Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 </u> London: HMSO, 1963"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Julius Bryant, ed. <u>Art and Design for All. The Victoria and Albert Museum</u> London: V&A Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9781851776665."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nBy 1880 it was very fashionable to decorate walls in three horizontal sections (frieze, filling and dado). Although this specimen panel was printed as one piece, usually the three parts would be produced as separate papers. They were combined according to the choice of the customer or decorator.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["E.660-1953"],"accessionNumberNum":"660","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1953,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN9550","2019LR1555","2019LP8374","2019LU8101","2019LU1717","2019LT8886","2019LV9435"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":false}}