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Description: | This design mimics the effect created by a display of Victorian scrap-relief sickers. The word "scrap" is often used to describe a piece of paper, usually small, printed in colour and sometimes embossed and diecut. Scraps first appeared at the beginning of the 19th Century in the form of simple black-and-white engravings, often later tinted by hand. By the 1820s scraps had become more elaborate and were sometimes embossed - a process by which a die was stamped into the reverse side of the paper, giving the front a raised three-dimensional appearance. Within a decade, both the printing and embossing processes were automated and volume increased. Collections of scraps were pasted into specially produced albums. Scrap collectors would fill the pages of their albums with pictures grouped in themes. Often the pictures would be supplemented by personal notes, lines of poetry or dedications from friends and relatives. The Victorians delighted in romanticism and sentimentality. Sought-after subjects for scraps included angelic-looking children, fashionably dressed ladies, birds, butterflies, pets, angels and fans. 'Decoupage', the art of decorating a surface with cut-out printed images, was a very popular pastime in the 18th Century. In their leisure time, people cut and pasted prints specifically reproduced for this purpose onto boxes, fans, table tops or screens. These objects were then given many layers of varnish to conceal the edges of the paper, so that the finished pieces resembled oriental lacquer-work or gave the impression of being hand-painted. In the 19th Century pre-printed scraps were used for this purpose and this tin design in effect continues this tradition. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | plant natural science costume childhood decorative art flower portrait | Temporal: | start=1979-01-01; end=1980-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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