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Wallpaper fragments from Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Renaissance Revival Floral Stripe. Naturalistic flowers, include roses, pansies and other flowers block-printed in pink, mauve, red, black, three greens, orange, peach, and two violets over a grisaille background of trailing ribbons and scrolls.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Renaissance Revival
Wallpaper
"G76" (Circled.)
"563B" (Maker or retailer stamp)
"Andersen House / Yarmouth, Mass / Still on walls in 1958" (Dorothy Waterhouse provenance note)
"Circa 1845 / I took this from hall / Robinson house / Main St / Yarmouth Mass" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
30 3/4 x 31 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.71AB
Yarmouth (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Block Printed
Polished
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stripe
ribbon
floral
roses
pansies
Renaissance Revival
Floral
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