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Three large wallpaper fragments from North Andover, Massachusetts. Oval medallions frame fine lined scenes of cherubs fishing with poles and nets and splashing in water. The pictorial medallions are adorned by foliate wreaths with draping vine swags. The pictorial figures are printed with an engraved copper roller in gray. The rest of the pattern is roller-printed in white and three grays on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
engraving (printing process)
medallions (ornament areas)
Wallpaper
"From / home of Mrs. Horatio Rogers / No. Andover / On walls when she / bought house" (written in pencil with some parts overwritten with ballpoint pen)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
31 x 18 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.453A-C
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.452
Engraved
wall fragments
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
cherubs
scenes
pastoral
foliate
swags
Medallion
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