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Fragment of Renaissance Revival style stripe wallpaper from the North Reading Library, Massachusetts. Large-scale cartouche with scrolls, strapwork and beads frame floral bouquet. Central cartouche element is flanked on both sides by partial stripes in the same style. Block-printed in red and white on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Renaissance Revival
stripes
Wallpaper
"No Reading / Library" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
25 x 21 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.466
Block Printed
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Cartouche
beads
strapwork
scrolls
flowers
Renaissance Revival
Stripe
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