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Wallpaper fragments

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1810-1815

GUSN

GUSN-181364

Description

Wallpaper fragments. Block-printed on hand-made paper using several colors-glossy dark green, red, pink and white on a lighter green ground; (a) depicts a chicken in a vignette with trees between plaid stripes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
ink
block printing (relief printing process)
plaids
Wallpaper

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 1/2 x 15 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Sharon Churchill

Accession Number

2005.8A-D

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
New Hampshire (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)

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