ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on what contemporaries called 'India' paper, that is Chinese wallpaper intended to form continuous scenes, as well as the products produced in imitation of these, sometimes called 'mock India'. 'Mock India' papers are a neglected category, as is another product associated with the umbrella term 'India'. The chapter considers: 'India' pictures and prints for use on screens, over-mantels, or in sets on the wall. The chapter discusses the place of Chinese wallpaper in the country house, its links to spaces designated as female and how its subject-matter can be read in relation to European wallpaper. Links to European models are also seen in two sets of Chinese wallpapers which were formerly at another country house associated with the Hobart-Hampden family, Hampden House in Buckinghamshire. Wealthy merchants with houses on the edge of London were also at the forefront of taste for Chinese wallpaper, just as they were amongst the early consumers of English made paper hangings.
