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Eight unused rolls. Scenery figure style paper. Vignettes show: men capturing a prisoner; a couple courting; men gambling; people arriving and leaving by coach; two men fencing. Vignettes are framed by scrolled foliage and flowers. Prints in pink, two reds, two greens, grey, two browns, two blues, and yellow on tan, ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
Wallpaper
40869
Barrett House (New Ipswich, N.H.),
632
Gregory & Brown Co.
Unknown
France
roll x 19 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Caroline Barr Wade
1948.741
Sanborn, "Old Time Wallpapers," plates IV and V.
France
Machine Printed
Unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
18th-century life
Paper
men
women
prisoner
gamblers
lovers
coach
scrolled foliage
flowers
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