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Fragment. The scenery figure paper comes from a fireboard and features a framed scene focused on a bridge leading to a port town on the other side. Gentlemen and ladies in the foreground engage in conversation. Printed in three blues, three greens, grey, white, red, beige and two browns on a slate ground.
wallpapers
wallpapers
fireboards (fireplace equipment)
Fireboard
Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
634
Unknown
France
23 5/8 x 26 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.1099
"Off the Walls", 1985 SPNEA
Possibly France
Block Printed
Fireboard
Grey
Original
Machine Made
maritime
Paper
port town
bridge
boats
ladies & gentlemen in period dress
dog
Scenery figure
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