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Two wallpaper fragments. Pieces of "Monuments of Paris". Leaf bough and boughs and bushes surrounding an embankment and other piece is of tree foliage. Printed in 4+ greens and three browns on a pale green ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Monuments of Paris
Parlor
1132
Dufour, Joseph (Manufacturer)
France
20 5/8 x 12 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
1969.227
McClelland, "Historic Wallpapers", pp. 336-7, fig. 22.
France
Title Accession Number 158-3
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2000.2229A-D
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Green
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
shrubs
foliage
Scenic
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