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Unused landscape scene wallpaper fragments from Dracut, Massachusetts. Two brightly colored vignettes of dancers and grape harvesters framed by grape vines. Mediterranean landscape. Roller-printed in at least eighteen colors on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"Miss Cutter's house / in Dracut" (handwritten)
"House in Dracut" (handwritten)
"G69" (Waterhouse inventory or refence number?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Heywood, Higgenbottom & Smith (Manufacturer)
England
9 x 21 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.373A-F
Dracut (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Possibly England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.492A-G
Machine Printed
unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
grapes
grape vine
dancers
figures
landscape
Mediterranean
Scenery Figure
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