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Wallpaper fragments. Pattern has faded almost completely, but there are vertical stripe lines, pin dots and sprigs. Printed in green, black, white on a bluish green ground. Tax stamp on verso. Also on verso notes and drawings relating to this paper and 1969.341.1.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Original To Harrison Gray Otis House, First House (Boston, Mass.), 3rd Floor Room
1199
Unknown
England
21 5/8 x 22 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Museum Accession
1969.341.1AB
Wallpaper in New England, p.97, fig. 22b (tax stamp)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Accession Number 1969.341.1-
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
stripes
dots
sprigs
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