1830-35
United Kingdom
Object qualities
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Object
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Type of arts & crafts
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MediumRoller-printed cotton, glazed
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SizeOverall: 84 Г— 25 1/4 in. (213.4 Г— 64.2 cm)
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Geography details
United Kingdom -
Country today
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Date1830-35
Source of information
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Type of sourceDatabase “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Fund that the source refers toMetropolitan Museum of Art
Description
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Probably intended for use as a window shade, this furnishing fabric presents a Gothic Revival motif of stained-glass windows replete with tracery, Tudor rose, and Campbell coat-of-arms. Although extremely popular, such repeating architectural patterns were condemned by Augustus Welby Pugin, who noted that “a moment’s reflection must show the extreme absurdity of repeating a perspective over a large surface with some hundred different points of sight: a panel or wall may be enriched and decorated at pleasure, but it should always be treated in a consistent manner.”