WALLPAPER:

All those delightful and genuinely hand-painted Chinese wallpapers where birds and insects cavort merrily around delicately flowered shrubs... those ingenious Zubor panoramas in praise of international commerce which are if anything more difficult to block print than it is to create a fresco... all those touching artifices in imitation of palatial paintings... none of these have any real modern equivalent, unless, for example, it is something like a photo of a forest in autumn.