Wallpaper fragment with block-printed leaf pattern in brown on light brown ground. Along left side of fragment is printed a flocked laurel leaf and berry stripe overprinted in orange and brown. (See 1995.565 for a variation on this pattern). This fragment has been identified as a fragment of sidewall from a wallpaper set from the Hayes House. The Hayes House is now part of Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
flock papers
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
2001.281.185
Unknown
16 x 13 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.607R
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.607A-Q
Block Printed
Flocked
wall fragment
Brown
Original
Handmade
Freize
Laid
Paper
vine
Foliate
Neoclassical
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