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Fragment. Overall repeat scenery paper. Swans, statue of Apollo with lyre in a lake-side garden. Printed in black and white on a blue ground. Drop repeat.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
284
Appleton Prentiss (Manufacturer)
United States
27 1/4 x 11 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
1917.294
These are reversed images of the sample: Lynn; "Wallpaper in America"; pp. 112-113, fig 6.2 & 6.3. "Wallpaper in New England" p. 68, fig 11.5.
United States
Title Accession Number 1917.284
Title Accession Number 1917.293
Title Accession Number 1919.597
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Classicism
Laid
Paper
swans
Apollo
lyre
pavillion
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