Two fragements of wallpaper from Braintree, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style pattern of dense, allover floral vine pattern with peacocks. Roller-printed in red on white ground. At least one older layer of wallpaper is adhered to the back of this paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
floral patterns
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"From early house in / Braintree / Given me by Mary Bean" (On fragment (A))
Bean, Mary
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
28 1/4 x 23 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.299AB
Braintree (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
wall fragment
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
vines
peacocks
Aesthetic
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