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Wallpaper fragment from Manchester-By-The-Sea, Massachusetts. Landscape scenic wallpaper depicting men hunting with dogs in wooded setting. Roller-printed in two greens, black, three browns, tan and five blues on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
landscape figures
Wallpaper
"Manchester - Mass / circa 1840" (handwritten)
"G68 / House behind the Capt. Trask House / Manchester-by-the Sea / English" (Dorothy Waterhouse note)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Associated With Captain Task House,
Unknown
England
27 1/4 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.99
Manchester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Possibly England (United Kingdom) [country]
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
woods
mountain
lake
figures
dogs
hunters
forest
Scenery Figure
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