Wallpaper fragment from Barnstable, Massachusetts. Stylized Neoclassical pattern of Medallions and Squares. Block-printed on handmade paper. Squares containing a design of an urn with quatrefoil, leaves and swans alternate with squares of a foliate sunburst composed of geometric elements. Printed in green on white ground. The individual pieces of paper (six in various sizes) that make up this fragment are arranged with no regard to pattern direction.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Norman Hayes - Barnstable / house built 1790 - first paper" (Dorothy Waterhouse note?)
"W 6" (Dorothy Waterhouse note (pattern reference?))
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Hayes House,
Unknown
United States
25 1/4 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.107
same pattern in different colorway
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1924.655
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.108
Block Printed
wall fragment
White
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
NeoClassical
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