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Fragment. Pillar and Arch wallpaper with floral swags, a flower-filled urn and columns with Corinthian capitals. Printed in brown, white and black on a grey ground and stenciled in brown.
wallpapers
block printing (relief printing process)
wove paper
stenciling
Wallpaper
Displayed in "Cherished Possessions"
Original To Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.), Front Hall
447
Unknown
38 1/4 x 18 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Henry G. Vaughan
1923.5
Wallpaper in New England, fig. 9.1, pgs. 59-61
1787-1790 (1787 - date house was built)
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Accession Number 1949.1098b
Title Accession Number 1923.5b
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1949.1098.1
Block Printed
Stenciled
Wall Fragment
Grey
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
joined sheets
Paper
floral swags
flower-filled urn
columns with Corinthian capitals
Pillar and Arch
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