Wallpaper fragment. Scenery figure paper featuring two pastoral vignettes. In the first vignette, two men seated at an outdoor table smoking as a woman serves ale. A country house is in the background with the sign "Travelers Rest." In the second vignette, a couple dances to a fiddler's tune. A thatched cottage in the background displays the sign "Goodale Sold Here." The paper is roller-printed in three greens, three blues, gray, tan, brown, purple, white, orange and yellow on light blue ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"1938.397 / Gift of Miss Mary Frye / Duplicate" (Dorothy Waterhouse note?)
"G 52" (circled) (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
England
30 x 21 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.104
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1938.397
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.105
Machine Printed
unused
Lt. Blue
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Pastoral
Paper
pastoral
dancing
drinking
landscape
houses
Scenery Figure
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