Victorian Wallpaper: Borders And Friezes Designs
Narrow bands and deep upper-wall panels that framed the wall and ceiling.
Anglo-Japanesque sidewall and border
1885
A) Sidewall
1850
Sample book
1915
Three pieces of architectural elements
1810
Patriotic paper with matching sidewall and frieze on light…
1890
Correct Wall Papers for Year 1918
1918
A) Sidewall
1880
Landscape figures
1810
A) sidewall
1890
Wide ocher striping printed on lighter ocher background
1805
Variety of pieces in the Aesthetic or Anglo-Japanesque style
1870
Border or sidewall
1905
Sidewall paper in the Aesthetic style, with all-over…
1870
A) Sidewall
1879
Small-scale light green scrolls printed on darker…
1868
A) Sidewall
1860
A) Sidewall with all-over pattern of tall grass or turf
1903
Matching sidewall and border
1885
General Greene
1780
A) A sidewall of moire design, printed in shades of blue
1880
Top and bottom borders with design imitating passementerie…
1860
Vertical rectangle
1785
Irregular fragment of empire border with drapery swags in…
1805
A) Stripe with diapered pattern, flanked by broad dotted…
1800
L.C. Orrell & Co., Book No. 2
1906
Repeating design of flowering rose branches, pink and…
1770
Hexagon motif with light tan center containing a tiny…
1850
Arabesque intermediate panel
1790
A) long narrow strip of wallpaper
1760
Floral sprigs in brown and blue interspersed with white…
1856
Scrapbook
1840
Alfred Peats Prize Wallpaper
1910
L. C. Orrell & Co. Book No. 3
1906
Vertical rectangle
1780
Vertical rectangle
1805
Scenic medallion with group of old country houses on right…
1825
Medium sized diamond shaped motifs of geometric design of…
1920
Imitation leather
1912
Vining floral design
1836
On glossy white ground
1899
Alfred Peats No. 4
1908
Wallpapers of Merit, Book No. 3
1917
A gothic paper, originally light toned but which has been…
1855
Floral bouquet set within a metallic copper oval, like a…
1905
A scroll frame encloses the major motif, a mill pond scene…
1835
On blue ground, vertical panels marked off by vertical…
1810
Grisaille wallpaper with attached border
1780
Imitation leather
1920
Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 3
1915
Alfred Peats Set A Book No. 5
1906
The Larkin Wallpaper Book, No. 4
1910
Sample book
1900
Vertical rectangle
1800
Border composed of a small geometric design of curved lines
1780
A) Top layer
1840
Vertical rectangle
1810
On light gray ground, vertical stripes with floral motifs…
1905
Cobban Brothers, Wall Paper and Room Mouldings
1900
Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 1
1915
Vertical rectangular panel with applied border on four sides
1790
Repeating paper probably used for a border
1813
Floral motif, large scaled flowers with large petals in…
1890
Horizontal rectangle
1795
Series of diamond shaped medallions running diagonally, all…
1870
Two uncut borders, containing stylized chrysanthemums(?),…
1880
On textured gray ground, thin vertical bands containing…
1905
Gothic Revival pattern
1840
Drop repeating arrangement of stylized orange, yellow…
1850
Two repeating panels of hunting scenes, in one frame, a man…
1800
Large octagons containing gray and white morning glories…
1840
Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 1
1915
A) Powdering of six-pointed stars which are now black,…
1740
One full repeat, part of another
1780
Against a light gray ground are printed isolated,…
1850
Vertical rectangle printed on joined sheets of paper
1815
Vertical rectangle
1780
Design consists of a single circular medallion or rosette…
1830
On strong yellow ground a group of two men in medieval…
1815
Aesthetic neo-Renaissance all-over pattern of scattered…
1880
A mandorla containing an adult robed classical figure with…
1785
Alternating vertical serpentine foliate bands enclosing…
1800
Aesthetic style design containing two vertical patterns…
1880
Neoclassical pattern of columns of flower bouquets with…
1880
Aesthetic pattern with two columns of motifs alternately…
1880
On light gray ground, allover honeycomb pattern made up of…
1905
Irise or rainbow paper
1825
Vertical rectangle, a full width, giving nearly two repeats
1900
Sanitary paper
1900
Rectangles and diagonal squares are placed in alternating…
1880
intermediate panel
1790
Ceiling border
1875
A) Green paper with stylized widely spaced floral stripe
1900
Against a glazed off-white ground is printed an elaborately…
1840
Vertical strip framed in three separate sections
1860
Vertical rectangle
1810
Bouquets of red flowers set within floral garlands
1800
Mission-style design
1905
Red and blue floral paper on a white ground in the style of…
1787
Vertical rectangle
1780
Paper printed with intersecting ellipses in brown on…
1800
On gray/taupe ground, gray fill of powdered dots, lines
1810
A) Petite floral stripe pattern
1905
Rose bouquets set within medallions, alternating large and…
1890
Vertical rectangle
1835
Design simulates a semi-circular trellis of delicate,…
1850
A) On textured, moire paper, shiny pastel green ground…
1905
A) Vertical motif of stem with small black and blue leaves…
1814
On tan ground, an irise or rainbow design of…
1820
A and c) Pillar and arch design containing locomotives and…
1820
Paper shows design of flowering stems with flying and…
1825
Against a gray ground are printed large blossoms and…
1850
A) Vase of floral bouquet centered within a wreath of wheat
1800
A) The upper portions of thickly set trees are seen
1805
Josephine
1820
''The Hingham''
1810
Medallions of dark and medium green with geometric floral…
1880
Bandbox
1835
A) Simulates Dutch tile
1890
A) Imitation wood panelling in dark browns, on polished…
1904
A) Panel outlined in stripes of two shades of blue and in…
1890
Irregular fragments of paper with ground originally pink,…
1765
A,b) On brown ground, alternating small brown stylized…
1800
Vertical stripes about 4 1/2 wide, alternating apple-green…
1805
Gauffred gold bands decorated with two rows of black…
1880
A) Obverse
1795
Fragments of pattern printed in ochre and green on light…
1820
Savoyards
1840
Design for wallpaper with Roman key border, rinceaux, and…
1830