Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Floral Aesthetic style paper with foreground pattern of asymmetrical, densley arranged flowers and foliage roller-printed in greens, browns, red and orange. Background foliate pattern roller-printed in yellow on polished yellow ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Aesthetic Movement
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Crocker" (handwritten)
36 (Written in red pencil. Circled. Waterhouse inventory or reference number?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
16 1/2 x 18 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.306
Probably United States
Title Accession Number
Machine Printed
Polished
Unused
Yellow
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
sprigs
ferns
foliate
Aesthetic
Floral
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