Victorian Wallpaper: Scenic Wallpaper Designs
Panoramic papers that depict landscapes and views across a whole room, made by French firms such as Zuber.
Landscape figures
1810
A) Sidewall with all-over pattern of tall grass or turf
1903
Incomplete unit of a forest scene
1900
Vertical rectangle
1785
L-shaped portion of a paper with repeating figured scenes
1840
Landscape scene, including large red flowers and foliage, a…
1906
On grisaille ground, figural scenic, vignettes featuring…
1800
Repeating landscape scene, with large single tree in center
1906
Repeating landscape scene, with group of four trees to…
1906
Elaborate cartouches enclosing scenes of mounted hunter and…
1835
Sanitary paper depicting eight different landscape views,…
1890
Vertical rectangle, with portion of two groups of playing…
1885
Whole width of paper, but incomplete repeat
1780
Drop repeating design in white and gray, of two landscape…
1840
Landscape design with rose bush in square planter…
1780
Vertical repeat in dark neutral colors similar to a verdure…
1860
Children's paper with farm scenes, including plowing the…
1900
Vertical rectangle
1840
Random landscape scenes or vignettes of village life in…
1840
Portion of an unused roll with figured scenes
1820
A pastoral scene enframed by leaves and vines is the single…
1875
Scenic medallion with group of old country houses on right…
1825
Vertical rectangle
1860
Green foliate scrolls enclose grisaille scenes of two…
1850
Asymmetrical arrangement of motifs, with central landscape…
1879
Landscape medallions printed in an architectural style,…
1905
On cream ground, treillage composed of clusters of trees in…
1905
Landscape medallions with grass, flowers, trees, and…
1905
Alfred Peats No. 4
1908
Four alternating scenic vignettes of cowboys
1870
A) Small diamond diaper pattern
1835
A scroll frame encloses the major motif, a mill pond scene…
1835
Grisaille wallpaper with attached border
1780
Two alternating landscape medallions enframed in symetric…
1890
Large foliate medallions in vertical lines that are offset
1905
Alfred Peats Wallpaper, No. 3
1915
Stylized vining floral
1906
Landscape with house and chapel, ducks swimming in green…
1830
Landscape vignettes visible through tree trunks and…
1900
Landscape paper with a view of a clearing containing…
1900
Shades of brown and white architectural vistas, window, etc
1830
Gothic Revival
1840
Cobban Brothers, Wall Paper and Room Mouldings
1900
Landscape views with woman walking along river carrying…
1840
Arabesque with classical orange figures in landscapes,…
1790
Rococo revival design with inset landscape cartouches of…
1860
Arabesque design with floral swags and two alternating…
1780
Two repeating panels of hunting scenes, in one frame, a man…
1800
Landscape medallions printed on a textured background…
1905
On cream ground, landscape design printed in shades of…
1900
Four rectangular landscapes depicting pastoral scenes of…
1860
Medallion of large shallow bowl, with three feet and link…
1785
Full width of paper with a single drop-repeating motif of…
1840
Repeating scene of a dog drinking at a fountain
1780
Sidewall
1890
A) is a small fragment
1855
Depicting scenes of the Crimean War
1840
A) In foreground, two men fish at the foot of a balustered…
1855
Landscape views with figures
1845
Rococo Revival landscape medallions, scenes alternate…
1840
Large cartouche enframing scene of steam locomotive…
1835
Scrollwork enframing landscape with stag and mountains,…
1840
Ribbon-tied foliate oval medallions enclosing landscape…
1860
Full width
1800
Two full widths, each with two different scenes, one below…
1835
Full repeat of a figural landscape design with Dickens…
1900
Imitation tapestry weave with hunt scenes, falconer, hounds…
1875
Diaper pattern with repeating scene of couple dancing
1780
Vignettes in browns, green, blue and white against an ocher…
1825
Vertical rectangle, a full width, giving nearly two repeats
1900
Printed for Nancy McClelland of New York City
1920
Diaper pattern with landscape vignettes containing boats,…
1850
Landscape medallions printed in an architectural framework,…
1905
Thousand and One Nights
1840
Three motifs of a paper with Neapolitan scenes enclosed in…
1860
Design of four scenes
1870
Two scenes of Italy showing the Bay of Naples enframed in…
1855
Anglo-Japanesque design composed of fountain, lake, pond,…
1879
In center, vertical oval medallion brought to a rectangle…
1835
Incomplete vertical unit of design with figured scenes
1820
Pastoral scenes including a country girl in cap and apron…
1840
Small scenic with stripe
1820
Landscape scenes set within an elaborate frame in the…
1840
Standing figure with Phrygian cap in fromt of column with…
1790
Design divided by narrow vertical stripes composed of small…
1800
Vertical rectangle
1875
View of New York City harbor as seen from Castle Williams…
1830
The Monastery
1900
Scenic Chinese export
1850
Offering to Cupid
1800
A) The upper portions of thickly set trees are seen
1805
Osborne
1850
''The Hingham''
1810
A scenic paper composed of two different vignettes that are…
1890
Hull
1813
Sidewall
1840
On satin or polished green ground, two columns of…
1845
Vertical rectangle, the end of a roll, giving a scene…
1840
A) On pastel green ground, interlace pattern in gray-green…
1900
La Chasse au Faucon (Falcon hunt)
1794
Gothic Revival design with landscape vignette
1840
A) Printed on recto, scenic vignettes with two alternating…
1863
Battle of Porte St. Denis
1830
Robinson Crusoe
1875
Maidens and a Victory
1810
Pilgrim's Progress
1870
A) Obverse
1795
The House that Jack Built
1886
Composed of two scenes
1795
Savoyards
1840