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Pencil tracing of a floral paper with tassles. Original paper located in an upstairs room of the Harrison Black House, Dedham, Massachusetts.
tracing (technique)
wallpapers
tracing paper
floral patterns
Pattern, Tracing
"Tracing of original W.P. in upstairs room Harrison Black house - Dedham Mass - Formally first Tavern - Also in house the pictorial / w.p. King Ahasuesus = Queen Esther" (handwritten)
"Tracing of w. p. - upstairs back bedroom w. p. / Dr. Harrison Black house - Dedham, Mass / Formally tavern owned by [Gibbs?] and Adams / families for 200 years" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
26 x 17 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.371
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.370
Title "King Ahasuerus" Wallpaper fragment Accession Number 2010.91.2
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1988.72.1
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