Wallpaper fragment. A pastoral scene of three sheep by a tree and fence. Printed in two browns, three greens, black and white on a light green ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Fowler House Main House, Parlor
382
Unknown
France; United States
16 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Clara Sanborn
1922.13B
Wallpaper in New England; pp. 125-6, fig 28.3. Lynn; Wallpaper in America; pp. 280-1, fig 12.11. From WPNE: "The vignette with the sheep is identical to one used to illustrate an 1816 advertisement for Landscape Figures made by Woodbridge and Putnam at
Possibly France
Possibly United States
Title Accession Number 1966.135
Title Accession Number 1911.107
Title Accession Number 2000.1665
Title Accession Number 1922.13A
Title Accession Number 90-11
Block Printed
Wall Fragment
Green
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Pastoral
Wove
Paper
Sheep
fences
castle
flowers
Landscape figure
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