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Wallpaper fragment from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Geometric pattern of overlapping fans with frothy edges. Block-printed in blue, white and black on olive ground. Partial sheet of handmade, wove paper. Layer four of four from the same location. Reproduced by Waterhouse Wallhangings as "Robbins House."
wallpapers
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
geometric patterns
Wallpaper
"Nantucket - / see pattern of #3 / [illegible text] / reversed" (Note refers to the fact that the imprinted pattern visible on the back of this layer belongs to layer 3 paper.)
"G8" (Waterhouse Wallhangings reference number?)
"Block / [illegible number?]" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
17 x 10 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.318.4
Nantucket (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.318.1
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.318.2AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.318.3AB
Block Printed
wall fragment
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
fan
circles
peddles
coral
froth
Geometric
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