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Paper window shade applied, probably to a fire screen, as a decorative element. Uppermost layer and probably sixth paper of approximately six layers from one location in Hanson, Massachusetts. Landscape scene framed on sides and bottom with large scale scrollwork. Block-printed in white, green, black, brown and tan on light blue ground. Back of paper also printed light blue.
wallpapers
shades (coverings)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Francis Hunt / 324 Winter St. Hanson" (written on scrap of newsprint)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
22 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.401.7A-D
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.1
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.2A-C
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.3A-C
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.401.4
Title Window Shade used as Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.5AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.401.6A-C
Block Printed
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Paper
Mount Vernon ?
House
Fort
figures
scrolls
tree
landscape scene
Scenery Figure
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