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“Neat and Not Too Showey”: Words and Wallpaper in Regency England
Amanda Vickery
Description: Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
​I​N AUGUST 1799, Dr. Thomas Ferris of the Deanery, Battle, in Sussex, wrote to the London wallpaper and decorating firm Trollope and Sons, having seen some paper at the architect-designed mansion of a local friend...
Author
Amanda Vickery
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2006 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.201-219
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.009
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20182
Chapter subject tags:Aesthetics, Modern--18th centuryInterior decoration--England--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th centuryConsumer (Economics)--England--18th centuryWallpaper--Britain--18th century

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“Neat and Not Too Showey”: Words and Wallpaper in Regency England
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