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Wallpaper fragments affixed to paperboard from the Old Freeman House in Eastham, Massachusetts. Large, stylized daisies crowd together to form abstract Aesthetic style pattern. Paper is embossed with a woven, or fabric-like, pattern and roller-printed in blue-gray, white and metalic gold on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"From old Freeman house - Eastham - Cape Cod - / Still in existence on wall of bed room" (handwritten)
"Late" (handwritten)
"#15 / from old Freeman house / Eastham - Cape Cod. / Still in use in bedroom." (Written on old jelly jar label.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Bedroom
Unknown
11 1/8 x 17 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.391
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
daisies
Aesthetic
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