The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain

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The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of plates
Preface
Introduction
	In search of paper hangings: visual and written evidence
	Interpretations of eighteenth-century wallpaper
	‘Antipodes of design’
	Recent approaches to wallpaper history
	Coming home: wallpaper and eighteenth-century material culture
	‘Our new paperhangings’
	Notes
Chapter 1: ‘Paper Hangings for Rooms’: the arrival of wallpaper
	A new commodity: from concealment to the wall
	Wallpaper’s growth: imitation and gentility
	Design and workshop practice
	Notes
Chapter 2: A contested trade
	Paper hangings manufacture: materials and techniques
	The organisation of the paper hangings trade
	Mapping supply
	Regulation and pricing strategies
	Preparation and hanging
	Trading networks
	Retailing and viewing paper hangings
	Consumption in town and country
	Notes
Chapter 3: Imitation and the cross-cultural encounter: ‘India’ and ‘mock India’ papers, pictures and prints
	Acquiring and hanging India paper and India pictures
	India paper in the country house
	India pictures, plains and ‘pencilling’
	India paper in the London house
	Mock India papers and pictures
	Notes
Chapter 4: In search of propriety: flocks and plains
	Flocks and mock flocks: in search of colour, pattern and texture
	‘Hanging and Colouring the Room’: plain papers
	Notes
Chapter 5: Challenging the high arts: papier mâché, stucco papers and ‘landskip’ papers
	Papier mâché
	Stucco papers
	‘Landskip, Ruins, Figures & C’: wallpapers depicting the‘Ruins of Rome’
	Notes
Chapter 6: ‘Our modern paper hangings’: in search of the fashionable
and the new
	The print room
	French products, English names
	Metallic finishes
	Hanging ‘in the French manner’: the compartment
	Wallpapers imitating stone
	Arabesque schemes
	Notes
Epilogue: ‘Pleasing decay’ – the rediscovery of
eighteenth-century wallpapers
	Notes
Appendix 1: List of principal wallpapered rooms
discussed, c.1714–c.1795
Appendix 2: List of eighteenth-century London
paper hangings tradesmen discussed
Bibliography
	Abbreviations
	Manuscript collections
	Printed primary sources
	Secondary literature
Index