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Three wallpaper fragments with Reniassance Revival style stripe and banch pattern from Middleton, Massachusetts. Stripe figures with fretwork, scrolls and lozenge-shaped medallions containing floral sprigs. Stripes alternate with leafy climbing branches. Block-printed in pale blue, tan, green and brown on a cream ground. Paper has visible blue fibers.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Renaissance Revival
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Woodward / Flint Farm / Middleton Mass / Alma's cousin" (handwritten)
"640" (stamped)
640
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
12 x 12 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.432A-C
Block Printed
unused
Cream
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Fretwork
scrolls
sprigs
medallions
lozenge
stripes
branches
leaves
Renaissance Revival
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