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Seven fragments of rainbow wallpaper in which the rainbow colors are applied to the pattern rather than the ground. The colors blend from brown (possibly red when first printed) to yellow to blue. Garlands of flowers, ribbon, and bows frame a vertically repeating figure of a fountain supported by architectural arches with foliage. Block-printed on ungrounded paper. Straight repeat.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
rainbow papers
Wallpaper
"1764" (on fragment "A")
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
22 x 9 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.240A-G
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1942.1164
Block Printed
Irise
wall fragments
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
fountain
flowers
garland
ribbon
arches
foliage
bows
tassle
Rainbow
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