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Unused landscape scene wallpaper fragments from Dracut, Massachusetts. Two brightly colored vignettes of dancers and grape harvesters framed by grape vines. Roller-printed in eighteen colors on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"From / home of / Mrs. Cullity / Sandwich, Mass" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Heywood, Higgenbottom & Smith (Manufacturer)
England
5 7/8 x 20 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.492A-G
Possibly England (United Kingdom) [country]
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.373A-F
Machine Printed
wall fragments
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
dancer
grapes
vines
Mediterranean
landscape
Scenery Figure
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