Original 19th-century Wylie & Lochhead Handpainted Floral Wallpaper Design
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Original 19th-century Wylie & Lochhead Handpainted Floral Wallpaper Design:
$221.97
Original 19th-century Wylie & Lochhead Handpainted Floral Wallpaper Design Original 19th-century Wylie & Lochhead Handpainted Floral Wallpaper Design
An original 19th-century watercolour painting, Wylie & Lochhead Hand-painted Floral Frieze Wallpaper Design.
This rare hand-painted floral frieze is the original design for a commercial satinette wallpaper, produced for Wylie & Lochhead Ltd around the end of the 19th century.
Immediately impressive for its symmetry and precision, and delicate palette of graded pinks, greens, blues and browns, the painting has the appearance of the finished printed wallpaper whist in fact being expertly hand painted.
Inscribed \"John Wylie\" below the image lower centre. Printing instructions inscribed to the right as shown, including: \"15-18 inch rollers\" and \"Satinette\". Commercial stamp verso as shown.
The sheet shows signs of age and wear, including some marks, age toning and creasing, and repaired tears to the upper right of the image, and in the margin at the lower right edge. There are two small holes, towards the left edge and the upper edge, and a series of tiny perforations to the upper and lower margins, possibly produced by a machine process.
37cm x 56cm.
Unframed.
This design is especially interesting as an example of satinette paper designed for the company Wylie & Lochhead. The application of “satinette” to wallpaper was first introduced to the trade by John Wylie around 1885. The process resulted from an experiment in which he introduced to the printing a mixture of finely ground mica, treated with a suitable size, which produced a softer more decorative effect than the old use of talc or course-grain mica. The effect proved extremely popular and gradually replaced earlier older processes altogether, the use of talc dust ultimately being condemned by the Home Office as unsafe.
Wylie & Lochead (originally Robert Wylie and William Lochhead, with sons Robert Downie Wylie and John Wylie taking over in 1864) were a successful Glasgow firm offering a range of departments and services including: upholstering, bed and table linen, feathers, carpets and floor cloths and paperhangings, cabinetmaking and paper staining, carving and gilding. They were a precursor to today’s House of Fraser department store.
This fabulous frieze, likely for use as a paper border towards the top of a wall, follows a Victorian fashion for chintz-style floral wallpapers and trompe l\'oeil techniques, with papers imitating drapery – in this case the cascading flowers are entwined with highly realistic ribbons.
Interestingly, the fashion for trompe l’oeil increasingly led to an ambivalence and snobbery about wallpaper as essentially imitative in character – a poor substitute for the real thing. Developments in printing presses in the 19th century also allowed for increasing mass-production of wallpapers, and hence their wider availability to the middle classes. This exquisite hand-painted artwork, however, turns that on its head, bringing us back to the original artwork at the heart of the design.
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Original 19th-century Wylie & Lochhead Handpainted Floral Wallpaper Design:
$221.97