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Small wallpaper fragment found in a series of layers of paper at the Silas Dean House, Wethersfield, Connecticut. Pattern consists of narrow cobalt blue stripe with linked diamonds running up the center alternating with a stripe of small circles. Printed in cobalt blue, purple, orange, and cream on a mustard yellow ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
Original To Silas Deane House,
Unknown
4 1/4 x 1 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mr. Elmer D. Keith
1971.158.3A
1820-1840 (Based on location within the series of layers and date of surrounding papers.)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1971.158.2
fragment
Yellow
Original
Border
Paper
circle
pin dot
diamond
stripe
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