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Four wallpaper fragments from the first, or earliest, of three layers of decorative paper from a fireboard. The wallpaper is block-printed with mid-sized, stylized floral medallions in green and black framed by stylized foliate and floral elements in gray on white ground. Two different medallion designs are visible. Printed on partial sheets of laid paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
laid paper
Wallpaper
"First paper on fireboard" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
10 3/8 x 14 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.250.1A-D
Probably United States
Title Fireboard Print Accession Number 2001.281.250.2
Title Fireboard Accession Number 2001.281.250.3AB
Block Printed
fireboard
White
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Laid
Paper
flowers
leaves
Medallion
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