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Embossed wallpaper fragment from Harwich, Massachusetts. English or French paper with pattern of dragons and strapwork. Dragons and a devil head hold bead or floral garlands in their mouths. Brown ground paper is stenciled in green, black and four browns, roller-printed in gold and varnished.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
stenciling
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Doane / Harwich / Mass" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
11 x 16 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.403
Machine Printed
Stenciled
wall fragment
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Dragons
Devil
strapwork
garlands
foliate
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