Fragment of reproduction scenery figure wallpaper. Medallion figures frame two pastoral scenes. The first scene is oval and depicts a male traveler resting against a tree trunk, a woman carrying a child on her back stands nearby. The second scene is smaller and rectangular. It depicts two seated people with a house in the background. The medallion elements, roller-printed in two shades of cream, are adorned with festoons of flowers and flanked on the left by a narrow stripe of the same color and style. The right side of paper has been torn away. The flowers and scenes are roller-printed in red, cream, two blues, blue-green, two greens, black, two pinks and two browns on beige ground. Manufactured by Birge in the U.S. Pattern number 3840.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
medallions (ornament areas)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"Rudy Fogel" (handwritten)
"Dorothy Smith" (?) (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Birge (Manufacturer)
United States
29 1/2 x 14 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.458
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.457
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1162
Machine Printed
unused
Beige
Repro
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
medallion
stripe
pastoral
landscape
figures
flowers
Scenery Figure
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