Decorating Collection

Paint Chart / 1908
PAINT CHART

Advertisement for Morses distemper with a decorator lying flat while painting the walls. Date: c.1924

Wates house interior imagined by Anne Morrow
Artists impression of the interior of a Wates house, done up in a rather fabulous 1960s scheme. Wates built a large number of houses on estates

Kaiser Wilhelm II presenting medals, Warsaw, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, presenting Iron Crosses to troops in Warsaw, Poland, soon after the city was captured by the Austro-German Army during the First World War

Window Gardening
A Victorian woman sits in a comfortable armchair reading a book, proud of her verdant display of plants decorating a large window

Design for wallpaper with peacock feathers
Design for wallpaper with stylised peacock feathers. Pencil and gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1905

Royal Wedding 1871 - wedding cake
A magnificent royal wedding cake for the wedding of Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne in 1871, made by Queen Victorias chief confectioner at Windsor Castle

Decorating Pottery - Barons Art - Barnstaple
Decorating by hand at Barons Art Pottery at Barnstaple, Devon. Here William Baron (grandson of the pottery founder William Leonard Baron) can be seen painting the pottery

Kaiser Wilhelm II at Kiel shipyard, Germany, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, visiting Kiel shipyard, Germany, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 2 October 1918

The Sketch Book: Young flapper girl with decoration
The Sketch Book: Young flapper girl hanging a wall decoration. The caption reads " Aiding and Abetting." Date: 1928- 1929

Old Bleach Linen Company Advert
An advertisement for The Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd. and their new fadeless embroidered linen. Date: 1932

Painting & Decorating - Illustration of a smartly dressed housewife mixing paint for application onto the kitchen dresser. Artist: Anon. Date: 1931

Lambeth Doulton Faience Factory - Painting - Victorian period

WW2 - King George VI Decorating R. A. F. Heroes
A photograph which shows H.M. King George VI decorating WW2 heroes of the Royal Air Force, at Buckingham Palace. Date: circa 1940s

Cover design, Do it yourself, May 1966 - do it herself, a practical guide for the woman about the house Date: 1966

Cover design, Do it yourself, January 1967 - a new look for your hall and staircase Date: 1967

Cover design, Do it yourself, April 1966 - Spring decorating number Date: 1966

Les Cerises
An illustration showing a number of ladies, all of whom have cherries lavishly decorating their fashionable dresses, hats and hair, birds are swooping between them. Date: circa 1901

Enchanted
A painting which highlights the gleaming quality of light, hitting a beautiful pond with flowers decorating the surface, in front of a dark forest. Date: circa 1916

Decorating Room, transferring designs, Alfred Meakin
Decorating Room, transferring designs in enamel onto the ware Date: 1913

Decorating Room, gilding the Bleu de Roi, Alfred Meakin
Decorating Room, gilding the Bleu de Roi Date: 1913

Shilling Theatre, Fulham, photographs of founders, volunteers and performers rehearsing. Captioned, Fighting the films: The Shilling Theatre at Fulham'

Advert for Arthur Sanderson and Sons, highlighting the international provenance of the fabrics and wallpapers available at their Berners Street showroom. Date: 1954

King George VI decorating Squadron Leader A. C. Deere
King George VI decorating Squadron Leader A.C. Deere, New Zealand Fighter Pilot, autographed, during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Artist Norman Keene replicating the original drawings done by William Heath Robinson on boarded up shop fronts in London. Heath Robinson designed pictures to illustrate the particular merchandise

British sailors decorating the Victory on the anniversary
British sailors decorating the deck of H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship, on the anniversary of his death on 21 October 1805

The village decorator, busy painting the front of "The Fox" Inn, at Finchingfield, Essex, England. Date: 1960s

A group of London women start an all-female decorating company. Date: 1926

Comic postcard, Boss and workman Date: 20th century

Street scene with decorating store, Brighter Homes
An early fifties Brighter Homes decorating store. Date: circa 1953

Decorating an office building, London
A team of decorators painting the outside of an office building in Central London, working from ladders with no protective head gear. Date: circa 1950s

Brightening up the London Peepshow windows
It was suggested that artist of repute should be invited by West End shopkeepers to design distinctive decorations on surrounding shop windows, during the Blitz

Applying gold in final stage of china decoration
Applying gold in the final stage of china decoration. 1953

Making Cloisonne enamel - Japanese village in London
Japanese artisan making Cloisonne enamel at the Japanese Village in Humphreys Hall, Knightsbridge in 1885. A complete village with its shops, tea-house

Stationery, Walter Llewellyn & Co, Eastbourne, Sussex
Stationery, Walter Llewellyn & Co, Carpenters, Joiners, Plumbers, Painters, Glaziers, Paper Hangers and House Decorators, Ceylon Place, Eastbourne, Sussex. 1900

Decorating My Dolls House by Muriel Dawson. 1941

The Christmas Tree by Joyce Horn
A little girl pops a fairy on top of a Christmas tree as the finishing touch of decoration while an attentive white terrier looks on with interest. Date: c. 1930

Children decorating a tree on a Christmas postcard
Three children decorating a tree in the snow on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Santa Claus with tree on a Christmas postcard
Santa Claus decorating a tree on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Londons smallest shop
A tiny corner room in Savile Place with one small window, was the venue opened by two sisters as an Art Furnishing and House Decorating business

Ceramics - decorating 1902
Men decorating ceramics in fine-detail, Glasgow, Scotland. 1902

Christmas at Windsor Castle 1846
Interesting engraving of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in the drawing- room, presenting gifts to her guests in 1846. The room was surrounded by several German Christmas trees nearly eight feet in

Christmas verses 1877
Victorian traditions, decorating the Christmas tree, couple under the mistletoe, wassail and Amen, written by Julia Goddard. Date: 1877

Granvale Church - collecting evergreen for Christmas 1869
Front cover of Christmas Supplement to The Illustrated London News, showing Victorian men, women and children receiving evergreen from a trader outside to decorate the church for Christmas. Date: 1869

Elder Sister and younger siblings - Christmas morning
1910

Pulled-Sugar Flowers Date: 1935

Piped Flower Samples Date: 1935

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