Landscape figure wallpaper featuring three different vignettes that alternate with a vase or basket of flowers. Between each vignette are narrow stipes with stylized flowers. The vignettes are of a fisherman, cows and a shepherd. Printed in grisaille on a light grey ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
1950.M16
653
Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)
United States
42.0 x 57 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
1950.M16.1A
"Wallpaper in America," Lynn, pgs. 279-280, figs. 12-7, 12-8, 12-9. "Wallpaper in New England," Nylander, pgs. 12-13, fig. I-11, I-12; pgs. 129-130, fig. 29-b. "The Papered Wall," from "An Ocean Apart: Imports and the Beginning of American Manufacture,
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1950.M16.1C
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1950.M16.2
Title Accession Number 1972.94
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1950.M16.1C
Block Printed
Wallpaper
Grey
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
Landscape figure
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