[Wallpaper design number one, by Messrs. Virchaux & Co. Ground, tea-leaf. Composed of vines covered with leaves, with a border of similar gound and colors] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Wallpaper design number one, by Messrs. Virchaux & Co. Ground, tea-leaf. Composed of vines covered with leaves, with a border of similar gound and colors], [between 1810 and 1820] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/57/57c4cd0c043e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Wallpaper design number one, by Messrs. Virchaux & Co. Ground, tea-leaf. Composed of vines covered with leaves, with a border of similar gound and colors], preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Wallpaper design number one, by Messrs. Virchaux & Co. Ground, tea-leaf. Composed of vines covered with leaves, with a border of similar gound and colors]
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Its ground is a muted tea-leaf color, over which vines bearing leaves climb in a repeating pattern, with a border of matching ground and colors. The design comes from Messrs. Virchaux & Co., a maker of printed wallpapers in the early nineteenth century, when such papers were replacing hand-painted walls in many middle-class and fashionable rooms. Foliage like this drew on the neoclassical taste of the Napoleonic years, when botanical ornament was widely fashionable across Europe and America. Because the record describes it as a design drawing, it shows the pattern as the maker planned it before printing.
| Created / published | [between 1810 and 1820] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : color. |
| Genre | Wallpaper 1810-1820.Design drawings 1810-1820.Prints Color 1810-1820. |
| Subjects | Leaves--1810-1820. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,130 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216732 |
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