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Wallpaper fragment. Landscape Figure paper with vignette of family clad in tartan listening to seated bagpipe player. Background of small repeating sprigs with border design of sprig stripes and abstract stripe along both selvedges. A rosette figure is positioned below the vignette. Block-printed in olive green, white, three browns, three grays, two tans, pink, peach, lavender and mauve on a light olive green ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"English 1800?" (handwritten)
"No 1091" (manufacturer or retailer stamp / pattern number?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
22 1/2 x 19 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.236
France
Block Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Landscape Figure
Paper
family
bagpiper
tartan
sprigs
stripes
boarder
rosette
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