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Two rolled fragments of landscape figure wallpaper. Repeating vignette of colonial figures: one male standing; one male seated at a table served drinks by a woman outdoors. Beneath the figures is a scene of a boy playing with a sailboat. Vignettes are flanked by entwined foliate vine.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
Original To Swift House,
1697
Unknown
19 3/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Quentin Mauer
1973.117AB
"Wallpaper in New England," p. 192, fig. 47.4
Block Printed
Unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
leisure, rustic, rural
Paper
trellis
pinetree
dog
sailboat
arch
stairway
vine
Scenery figure
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