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Seven fragments of handpainted wallpaper featuring rolling hills with houses, a sailboat passing by a walled-in city, sky and trees. Painted in black, brown, two blues, blue-green and white on an unground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Original To Harrison Gray Otis House, First House (Boston, Mass.),
1170
Attributed to Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845
27 3/8 x 18 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Museum Accession
1969.337.3A-G
Wallpaper in New England, pg. 111-112
Title Accession Number 1969.337.3a-
Title Accession Number 1969.337.1-
Hand Painted
Wall Fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
trees
houses
hills
sailboat
door
sky
Scenic
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