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Wallpaper border fragment. Pattern consists of meandering bellflowers printed in black and white on a grey ground.
wallpapers
block printing (relief printing process)
stenciling
Wallpaper
In "Cherished Possessions"
Original To Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
459
Unknown
22 1/8 x 1 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Henry Vaughan
1923.5b
"Wallpaper in New England," p.60, fig. 9.1
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Accession Number 1923.4b
Title Accession Number 1923.5
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Grey
Original
Handmade
Border
Wove
joined sheets
Paper
bellflower
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