Wallpaper fragments mounted on paperboard. Landscape figure pattern depicting two vignettes on a background of small chevrons and edged with a foliate pattern. The vignettes are of a seated woman in Napoleonic dress with a boy in riding attire carrying fruit and, in smaller scale, a building with tower. The vignettes are framed by a semi-circle of foliage and flowers. The paper has darkened and the colors of the print faded. The paper is block-printed in what appears to be pink and red on ungrounded, laid paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
laid paper
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
French Colonial
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
20 1/8 x 16 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.235.1
Title Trunk Accession Number 2001.281.235.2
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1987.119a
Block Printed
trunk lining
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Landscape Figure
Laid
Paper
woman
boy
fruit
foliage
flowers
chevron
Napoleonic dress
building
tower
Scenery Figure
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