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Wallpaper fragment from a home on Wellington Street, South Boston, Massachusetts. Art Nouveau style wallpaper with large-scale stylized floral with scrolling foliage pattern. Embossed floral pattern on bronze ground. The pattern interior is further embossed with fine diagonal striations. The background is embossed with the same striation pattern in opposite diagonal.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
Art Nouveau
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To 4 Wellington Street (South End, Boston, MA),
Unknown
49 1/2 x 17 15/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.303
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Machine Printed
wall fragments
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Floral
scroll
Leaves
Art Nouveau
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