Unused wallpaper fragment. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with abstracted floral scrolling repeat pattern. Roller-printed in pale yellow and metallic gold on white ground. The paper is embossed with an all over pebble pattern.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Art Nouveau
embossed wall coverings
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"BEFORE 1880" (handwritten)
"(not much!)" (Comment in repsonse to Inscription 1? Written by?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
23 1/4 x 19 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.204
Machine Printed
Gilt
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Abstract
Floral
Art Nouveau
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