Wallpaper fragments depicting pillar and arch with colonnaded exedra supporting a seated figure of Britannia. Printed in black and white on grey ground. Straight match.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Silas Deane House,
1428
Unknown
England
8 1/2 x 15 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Elmer D. Keith
1971.158.1
"Wallpaper in America," pg. 82, fig. 3-16. Also an article in "Antiques Magazine" in 1950s by Elmer Keith.
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Accession Number 1971.58.2
Title Accession Number 1971.58.3
Title Accession Number 1971.58.4a
Title Accession Number 1971.58.4b
Title Accession Number 1971.58.5
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2000.1648
Block Printed
Grey
Original
Handmade
Laid
Paper
Corinthian columns
"Britannia
" urn
Neoclassical
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