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Wallpaper fragment from the Sumner Taylor House, Ashby, Massachusetts. Diaper pattern paper block-printed in three browns and white on ochre satin ground. Dorothy Waterhouse refered to this as the "Longfellow" pattern because of its use in the Longfellow House, Portland, Maine. The pattern was also used in the Nelson Room at the Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Massachussets.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
diaper patterns
Wallpaper
"483" (pattern number?)
"From / Miss Allison / Fitchburg, Mass- / Second paper in Sumner Taylor/house, Ashby - Covered the block / print paper which was first paper - / This is the "Longfellow" pattern, same as / in Longfellow house, Portland, Me - / Circa 1840" (written on scrap paper)
Longfellow
483
Allison, Miss
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Sumner Taylor House,
Unknown
11 1/8 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.274
Ashby (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Fitchburg (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Block Printed
unused
Ochre
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
diamond
Diaper Pattern
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