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Wallpaper fragment mounted on paperboard labeled "Crocker" from Brewster, Massachusetts. Aesthetic style paper with dense, asymmetrical floral pattern roller-printed in two yellows, red, dark maroon, black and dark olive on olive ground. Olive ground color is badly deteriorated and has largely disappeared.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Aesthetic Movement
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"cut as choke / Design 19 3/16 x 20 1/2" (handwritten)
"Crocker / Brewster Mass / Royal Damask" (Royal Damask the pattern name of Waterhouse reproduction??)
[check mark] (In red pencil.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
12 1/2 x 18 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.308
Brewster (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Probably United States
Title Accession Number
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.855.1-.2
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Floral
Aesthetic
Floral
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