Unused wallpaper fragment from President Eliot's House, Cotuit, Massachusetts. High quality English paper with very fine pindot background, possibly roller-printed, beneath a block-printed flowering vine pattern. Floral pattern printed in brown, pink, red and two greens. Pindot background printed in gray, light blue and brown on white polished ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"G.92" (circled) (Waterhouse inventory or reference number?)
"Sawyer - Cotuit / Pres. Eliot's / house" (Sawyer may refer to person paper was acquired from.)
"My drafting room / (?)" (Second statement illegible.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
England
19 1/2 x 18 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.362
Probably England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.363
Block Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
vine
pindots
sprig
Moiré
stripe
Floral Trail
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