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| Victoria & Albert Museum |
Here, we see a portion of wallpaper frieze with a deep paprika red ground dominated by an attractive lyre motif with an egg-and-dart molding pattern running above. The design was created as a woodblock print, allowing for intricate detail such as the artist’s attempt to imitate the texture of an ancient lyre which would have been made of tortoise shell and goats' horns.
This is the work of Walter Crane (1845-1915) who was a prolific designer of wallpapers. This frieze is one of Crane’s final designs. It shows the neoclassical revival style which was then popular at the time of the coronation of King George V. This frieze, or border, was designed for use with the Crane’s “Classic” pilaster paper.
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