Wallpaper

Maker & role
Unknown, Maker
 Production date
circa 1860
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Object detail

Collection
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
Measurements
L: 52 x W: 60cm (L: 520 x W: 600mm); Pattern repeat, L: 19cm (L: 190mm)
Credit line
Gift, Kim White and Lester Oehm, 2004
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Wallpaper fragment from a cottage in Pyrmont, c1860
Description
The fifth closest to the wall of a sandwich of eleven layers of wallpaper, dating from about 1845 to c1880, uncovered in a single storey stone cottage in Pyrmont, Sydney. The wallpapers were found during renovations to the house behind panelling in a room that may have been used as a parlour. The cottage was built between December 1842 and February 1845 by a waterman turned publican named John Reed Harman. He sold the property to another publican, Thomas Bruffell, in 1858 and Bruffell sold in turn to politician, solicitor and substantial property owner George Wigram Allen. The Allen family remained in ownership until 1923 and the house was tenanted throughout this time. Until 1870 there were at least nine different occupants including a butcher, watchmaker, painter, brass finisher, dealer, and master mariner. From 1871 to 1904 a confectioner named George Jansen lived in the house with his family.
Accession number
L2005/56-5

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