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Unused wallpaper fragment. French striped wallpaper with pastoral and musical vignettes framed by arabesque elements. Solid blue stripes alternate with pattern stripes block-printed in multiple greens, pinks, browns, blues, and gray on white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
(Manufacturer)
19 1/2 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.330
France
Block Printed
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
arabesque
pastoral
music
flowers
wheat
hat
basket
birds
bagpipes
drum
sheet music
book
trellis
Stripe
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