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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
"50 rls(?) / Mrs. Wilde - Canton" (Dorothy Waterhouse note?)
"English 1840" (handwritten)
"2" (First "2" is at 90 degree angel to other set of numbers. Centeral symbol in second set of numbers looks like a shortened "0" or degree mark)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
21 1/2 x 25 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.105
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.104
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1938.397
Machine Printed
unused
Lt. Blue
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Pastoral
Paper
pastoral
landscape
drinking
dancing
houses
Scenery Figure
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