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Fragments of scenery figure wallpaper from Salem, Massachusetts. Several fragments of the same pattern are taped together. Swiss architectural figures frame scenic vignettes, one of a couple crossing a rustic timber bridge and the other of mountain goats on an outcrop of land with water, a village and mountains in the background. The water and mountains are colored using a rainbow effect, dark blue-green water fades to lighter green water to light blue mountains. Block-printed in black, three browns, three greens, peach, salmon, white, two blues and two grays on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"G99" (written on two different fragments)
"Salem / Stacey" (written twice)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
28 1/2 x 31 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.483
France
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.1118AB
Block Printed
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
landscape
Swiss
people
goats
Scenery Figure
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