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Unused fragment of wallpaper. Sprigs of leaves and wheat with trailing vines. Roller-printed in gray, metallic gold, light ochre, and shades of red. The leaves and twigs are printed with an ombre technique in which the red color darkens across the pattern from left to right.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
29 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.323
Machine Printed
unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Leaves
vines
wheat
ombre
twigs
festoon
Foliate
Sprig
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