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ART-JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.
Messrs. WOOLLAMS, of London, exhibit a great
variety of new and beautiful designs in paper-
hangings, a branch of the industrial arts which
has received much improvement during the last
quarter of a century in England ; perhaps we
may safely assert that there is scarcely any one
trade in which greater progress is visible. The
and very deservedly, inasmuch as the character
of each style, and the taste of each age, have been
studied, and its most characteristic features
applied with success to the adornment of our
walls. The series upon the present page are
good examples of this fact, and exhibit much
reputation for good design and tasteful colouring
winch the continental houses almost monopolised
is now abundantly shared by the home producer :
variety of style; the elongated panel, is a free amid all the changes-of fashion. The gorgeous
translation of the best Italian period, when a
Raffaelle did not disdain to devote his tran-
scendant genius to the walls of a Loggia, and
produce a style which has never been surpassed,
taste of Persia has furnished the theme of the
second of our series, the fanciful and brilliant
hues of which are, of course, but to be guessed
at without the aid of colour ; the same remark
must apply to our third example, in which the
style of the decoration adopted in that far-famed
building—the Alhambra—has been chosen, and
re-produced with great success, and at a cost
which enables the moderately-wealthy to rival
the dearly-purchased luxuries of the East.
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Messrs. WOOLLAMS, of London, exhibit a great
variety of new and beautiful designs in paper-
hangings, a branch of the industrial arts which
has received much improvement during the last
quarter of a century in England ; perhaps we
may safely assert that there is scarcely any one
trade in which greater progress is visible. The
and very deservedly, inasmuch as the character
of each style, and the taste of each age, have been
studied, and its most characteristic features
applied with success to the adornment of our
walls. The series upon the present page are
good examples of this fact, and exhibit much
reputation for good design and tasteful colouring
winch the continental houses almost monopolised
is now abundantly shared by the home producer :
variety of style; the elongated panel, is a free amid all the changes-of fashion. The gorgeous
translation of the best Italian period, when a
Raffaelle did not disdain to devote his tran-
scendant genius to the walls of a Loggia, and
produce a style which has never been surpassed,
taste of Persia has furnished the theme of the
second of our series, the fanciful and brilliant
hues of which are, of course, but to be guessed
at without the aid of colour ; the same remark
must apply to our third example, in which the
style of the decoration adopted in that far-famed
building—the Alhambra—has been chosen, and
re-produced with great success, and at a cost
which enables the moderately-wealthy to rival
the dearly-purchased luxuries of the East.
129
2 L