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Two fragments of striped wallpaper from the Nye Homestead in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Undulating vine with leaves and berries alternates with geometric diamond stripe. Block-printed in white on gray ground. Wove paper, partial sheet. Reproduced by Waterhouse Wallhangings as "Nye Homestead" in the 1960s.
wallpapers
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
stripes
Wallpaper
"Under lathe + plaster" (handwritten)
"Nye / Homestead / Sandwich, Mass" (handwritten)
"Upstairs / First layer / Nye house / Sandwich"
"First paper on pine boards / Nye house / Sandwich" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Nye Homestead, 2nd Floor Room
Unknown
United States
18 1/2 x 11 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.495AB
Sandwich (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Probably United States
Title Reproduction Wallpapers Accession Number 2001.281.759.1-.7
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1923.313
Block Printed
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
Vines
diamonds
stripes
Foliate Vine
Berries
Stripe
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