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Full roll of reproduction wallpaper made for the front hall of the Hamilton House, South Berwick Maine. Bouquet of flowers in an urn flanked by Corinthian columns draped with floral garlands. Printed in white, brown and black on a blue ground.
wallpapers
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Original To Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.), Front Hall
633
1949.1098.2B
Gregory and Brown Co. (Manufacturer)
United States
28 1/8 (W) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.1098.2A
"Wallpaper in New England," p. 269, fig. 79.2. (illustration of paper in situ)
1898 (year made)
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1917.142
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1949.1098.1
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1949.1098.2B
Block Printed
Roll
Lt. Blue
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
architecture, classicism
Paper
column
arch
Corinthian capital
garland
urn
bouquet
Pillar and Arch
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