Fragment of floral and column stripe wallpaper. Grey ground with floral vine printed in blues, browns, pink, white, yellow. Columns printed in blues and brown. Straight repeat.
wallpapers
block printing (relief printing process)
wove paper
Wallpaper
Original To Elmwood,
843
1963.92A
Unknown
United States
39 1/4 x 41 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Harvard University
1965.7.1A
Wallpaper in New England, fig. 8.4, pg. 59.
1787-1790 (1787 - Year house was sold to Elbridge Gerry)
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1965.7.2A
Title Accession Number 1965.7.3
Title Accession Number
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1965.7.2BC
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1965.7.2CD
Block Printed
Wallpaper
Grey
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
floral trail
twisted columns
Floral Stripe
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