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Fireboard paper depicting pastoral vignette. Scene framed by tree and foliage depicts figures around a small stream with European town in the background. Figures include two children sailing a toy boat, a man on a horse, a seated woman, and a child asleep against a log. Town in the background has a prominent outcrop with either a fortification or church on top. Block-printed in multiple greens and browns, tan, yellow, blue, orange, pink, gray, and violet on Irisé ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
scenic wallpapers
vignettes (visual works)
landscape figures
Fireboard
"Fireboard paper mid 1800's" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Possibly Zuber Et Cie (Manufacturer)
23 x 28 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.63
Similar use of irise technique to create ski / ground.
Title Fireboard Accession Number 2000.321
Block Printed
Irise
irise ground
Original
Machine Made
Pastoral
Paper
Figures
Landscape
foliage
people
children
boat
town
horse
sailboat
Scenery Figure
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