Wallpaper with an allover floral pattern block-printed in Irisé method on ungrounded red ingrain paper. Two fragments of the paper are lined with fabric, one fragment with newspaper. Other fragments of newspaper accompany the wallpaper, one bearing the date "16 November, 1844."
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
newsprint
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
(Manufacturer)
19 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.244A-Q
Pattern resembles all over floral papers of the 1820s.
Probably United States
Block Printed
Irise
wall fragments
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
leaves
Floral
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