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Wallpaper fragment from Massachusetts featuring a rose bouquet medallion alternating with a scene of a bird on a branch with berries. Background pattern of rosettes and pin dots. Block-printed in pink, dark pink (or red), gray and white with light and dark green varnish on blue ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
varnish
Wallpaper
"Given me by Mrs. Herbert[?] Magoon[?] / Taunton[?] Mass RFD# 1[?]" (Text very faint and difficult to decipher)
"10/13/68 / Dear Mrs. Waterhouse / Enclosed is a sample of / the wall paper I spoke about. I / don't recall where it come from. / I rather like the colors in it / and I am wondering if you have / seen it before and know anything / of its origin. Would you mind letting / me know. Thanks a lot / Yours / Carter Whitcomb" (Written n Mr. Whitcomb's letterhead)
"(W5264 / width?)" (Written at the bottom of the letter from Mr. Whitcomb but in a different hand.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
20 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.502
Probably France
Block Printed
Varnished
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Wove
Paper
Medallion
Roses
Ribbon
rosette
pin dots
bird
branch
berries
Medallion
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