WILLIAMSBURG Mural Collection by Paul Montgomery

British landscape designer Humphrey Repton was renowned for the transformation options he offered owners of English estates in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He prepared “red...

British landscape designer Humphrey Repton was renowned for the transformation options he offered owners of English estates in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He prepared “red books” for...

Johannes Kip was a Dutch draftsman, engraver, and print seller who followed King William and Queen Mary from Holland to England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. During the reign of Queen Anne,...

Sample of the printed Williamsburg mural Parterre Promenade.

Our Parterre Promenade mural features subtle geometric patterns created using 17th-century garden designs from rare books in the Colonial Williamsburg library. These intricate garden features were...

The Sun King Louis XIV commanded an army of gardeners to create topiary fences (“palisades") and intricate geometric garden designs (“parterres”) at Versailles. Our updated baroque...

Indian mordant-painted and dyed textiles were among the first Asian textiles to reach Europe as East-West trade opened in the 17th century. These patterned “chintzes” were incredibly novel and...

Sample of the printed Williamsburg mural Kensington Whitework.

The Kensington Whitework mural is inspired by English whitework bed curtains embroidered in chinoiserie style around 1690-1730, and now in the Colonial Williamsburg collection. The curtains feature...