Fragment of wallpaper imitating festooned fringed drapery, with matching border
France
About 1800
From La Haute Ville, Vaison, France, formerly the home of the Marquis de Taulignan
Colour print from woodblocks
Museum no. E.1042-1925

This is an early and relatively unsophisticated version of the fashion for imitation draperies, a fashion which continued into the 1830s with ever more lavish and convincing trompe l'oeil effects.