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Large fragment of unused floral wallpaper from Middleton, Massachusetts. Large scale c-scroll cartouches in gray with colorful naturalistic floral bouquets and traveling vines. Roses and lilacs are featured. Block-printed in two grays, dark maroon, two greens, three blues, three violets, two pinks and red on polished white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Wallpaper
"Alma's cousin / Mrs. Woodward / Flint Farm / Middleton" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
47 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.428
Block Printed
Polished
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
flowers
c-scroll
cartouche
roses
lilacs
Floral
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