Samples of wallpaper showing available colorways designed by C. F. A. Voysey for Essex and Company who were the manufacturers in 1893. A leading light of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Voysey also designed houses which no doubt used only his designs. Pattern #1. Woodblock. Image © Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia. Fair use license. via http://museum.collection.hht.net.au/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=410&db=object Pattern #1 in five colorways. Woodblock. Image © Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia. Fair use license. via http://museum.collection.hht.net.au/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=410&db=object. Pattern #2. Woodblock. Image © Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia. Fair use license. via http://museum.collection.hht.net.au/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=410&db=object. Pattern #2 in five colorways. Woodblock. Image © Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia. Fair use license. via http://museum.collection.hht.net.au/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=410&db=object. Pattern #3. Woodblock. Image © Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia. Fair use license. via http://museum.collection.hht.net.au/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=410&db=object.
Wallpaper glitzed and glammed up making whatever happens in your house more excitingly beautiful. English. Walter Crane, designer. Living from 1845 to 1915 he was a leading light of the Arts and Crafts movement and good friend of William Morris. “Rabbit and Deer” design wallpaper frieze. 1887. Designed for Jeffrey and Company. Block printed. Image copyright © The Victoria and Albert Museum. via http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2017/11/english-wallpaper-and-seemingly.html. l”Swan, Rush and Iris.” Wallpaper. 1877. Made for Jeffrey and Company. Color woodblock print. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O218519/swan-rush-and-iris-wallpaper-crane-walter-rws/. Robed male figures in a boat. 1877. Dado. Designed for Jeffrey and Company. Block printed. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. via http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2017/12/block-printed-english-wallpapers.html. “Lyre and Garland.” Wallpaper frieze. 1911. Designed for Jeffrey and Company. Block printed. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. via http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2017/11/english-wallpaper-and-seemingly.html. “Iris and Pomegranate.” Wallpaper frieze. 1891. Designed for Jeffrey and Company. Color woodblock print. © Victoria and Albert Museum London. via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O224523/iris-and-pomegranate-wallpaper-crane-walter-rws/. All artwork used under a fair use license.
Pretty wallpaper by C. F. A. Voysey, English architect and designer (1857-1941). No doubt the country houses he dotted the British countryside with had them in every room . . . . . why else to design both . . . ups the sales you know. “Minto.” 1901. Color machine print. Essex and Company, Manufacturer. © Victoria and Albert Museum. via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O559626/minto-wallpaper-c-f-a/. “Dovedale.” 1905. ©Photo Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris/Jean Tholance. Collection of the Musee Arts Décoratifs. via http://collections.madparis.fr/dovedale. “Fidelis.” 1919. Engraved and colored by hand. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum. via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O559616/fidelis-wallpaper-design-c-f-a/ “Tulip.” 1893-95. Block printed on paper. Image © The Cooper Hewitt Museum. via https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18667891/#image-rights Wallpaper design. April, 1909. Watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper. © Victoria and Albert Museum. via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1068277/design-for-wallpaper-design-c-f-a/