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Man pushing a woman in a wheelbarrel alternating with a vase of flowers and leaves. Orange, blue and black on a grey ground.
wallpapers
block printing (relief printing process)
paper (fiber product)
handmade
Covering, Wall
Wallpaper
Transfer Printed
Unidentified Paper
Wallpaper
Label "Waiting for a Gallery" This fanciful wallpaper was found in a bedroom closet in the Tobias Lear House in Portsmouth, NH. In some areas the ground color has worn away to reveal that the pattern was printed on recycled paper-- proof sheets lift over from printing a book.
Original To Tobias Lear House, Closet
2014.57.1
Unknown
44 3/4 x 13 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Tobias Lear House
1992.184
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Massachusetts (United States)
Block Printed
Grey
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Floral
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