Sidewall: Yellow Gilt

Like a window on the wall into an imagined past, this minimally framed remnant in a late-Victorian setting gives a glimpse of a treatment that might actually have been used in exactly such a manner - a gilt all-over sidewall above a bronzed Anaglypta dado in a room with rich woodwork, eclectic furnishings and elaborate hand-sewn curtains.

American Wall Paper Manufacturers Association, 1880-1887.