Wallpaper
Maker & role
Unknown, Maker
Production date
1860s
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Object detail
Measurements
L: 117.5 x W: 56.2cm (L: 1175 x W: 562mm); Pattern repeat, L: 13.5cm (L: 135mm)
Signature & marks
Printed on selvedge: '1068'
Credit line
Gift, The Hume Family, 2006
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Wallpaper fragment, striped design featuring a cobalt-blue seaweed pattern, 1860s
Description
This striped design features a cobalt-blue seaweed vermiculated pattern, a motif often found on mid to late nineteenth century fabrics and wallpapers. Seaweed motifs were sometimes used as the sole pattern or as a pale background over which another more bold design was printed.
This is one of nine different wallpaper fragments retrieved from 'Garroorigang', near Goulburn NSW. The papers were removed due to severe damp and to make necessary remedial changes to the room. The house and stables were built between 1857 and 1859 for innkeeper, Charles Thomas, and initially operated as the Mulwaree Inn (named after the river which runs through the property). In 1868, the property was purchased by Samuel Harbourne Belcher who coverted the inn into a school for 'gentlemen's sons'. The school was closed in 1883 and has been used as a private residence until the present day, though the house and grounds have been open to the public for guided tours since 1975.
This collection of wallpaper comes from what is currently the Drawing Room. Prior to 1868 when the house was used as an Inn, this room was, however, divided into two or possibly three separate rooms. Some of the nine different wallpapers were only uncovered in one part of the current room, indicating that they probably predate the space's conversion into a drawing room in 1868. This wallpaper fragment appears to be one of the pre-1868 wallpapers.
This is one of nine different wallpaper fragments retrieved from 'Garroorigang', near Goulburn NSW. The papers were removed due to severe damp and to make necessary remedial changes to the room. The house and stables were built between 1857 and 1859 for innkeeper, Charles Thomas, and initially operated as the Mulwaree Inn (named after the river which runs through the property). In 1868, the property was purchased by Samuel Harbourne Belcher who coverted the inn into a school for 'gentlemen's sons'. The school was closed in 1883 and has been used as a private residence until the present day, though the house and grounds have been open to the public for guided tours since 1975.
This collection of wallpaper comes from what is currently the Drawing Room. Prior to 1868 when the house was used as an Inn, this room was, however, divided into two or possibly three separate rooms. Some of the nine different wallpapers were only uncovered in one part of the current room, indicating that they probably predate the space's conversion into a drawing room in 1868. This wallpaper fragment appears to be one of the pre-1868 wallpapers.
Accession number
L2007/5-11
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