Wallpaper fragment from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Stamped-gilt figure wallpaper in neo-grec style. Block-printed in gray and black with stamped gilt on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
embossed wall coverings
Wallpaper
"Stacey / Marblehead / Mass" (Dorothy Waterhouse note)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
27 1/8 x 5 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.98
Possibly Marblehead (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Block Printed
Gilt
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
neo-grec
Gilt Figure
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