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Two wallpaper fragments from the Stephen Robbins House, Lexington, Massachusetts. Three-dimensional block or "step" pattern with chains. Block-printed in black and white on a blue ground.
wallpapers
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Early block pattern / 3 dimensional / Have found 3 variations" (handwritten)
"1730 / Lexington Mass" (handwritten)
"From house of Stephen Robbins / built 1730 - Lexington Mass."
"From house / [illegible] built 1730 / The Robbins / Homestead / Lexington"
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Stephen Robbins House,
Unknown
5 x 6 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.316AB
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.315AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1971.2
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1123
Block Printed
wall fragment
Lt. Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
block
step
chain
Geometric
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