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Partial roll and fragment. Grisaille figures classically dressed (boy with tambourine and woman with lyre) alternating with griffin flanked by arabesques. Framed on left and right by grisaille imitation plaster work. Printed in three greys, five blues, red, orange, yellow, two pinks, tan, brown and white.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
263
1917.150
Unknown
Holland
8 3/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of Herbert Browne
1917.150AB
Holland (Netherlands) [historical region]
Title Accession Number 1917.152
Title Accession Number 1917.153
Block Printed
Unused
Grey
Original
Handmade
Border
mythology, ancient Greece, music
Laid
Paper
griffin
arabesque
lyre
tambourine
figures
Neoclassical
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