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Wallpaper fragment with attached border. Pattern of vertical panels printed with alternating scenes featuring bucolic views of a thatched cotttage and swimming swans. Between repeating vignettes are stripes of gnarled twigs. Printed in two beiges, brown, white, and green on off-white ground.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
1687
Unknown
France
30 x 31 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Merlin Acomb
1973.111A
"Wallpaper in New England," pg. 190-191, fig. 47.1
France
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1973.111b
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1973.111b
Block Printed
Polished
Wallpaper
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
cartouches
C-scrolls
gnarled twigs
swimming swans
thatched cottage
bridge
vines
Scenery figure/Rococ
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