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Wallpaper fragment with stylized floral vine pattern from Townsend, Massachusetts. Stylized vines or branch with light-colored leaves undulate up the paper. Red flowers and berries highlighted with gold accents. Roller-printed in red, orange, black, olive, metallic gold and gray on olive ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
floral patterns
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Townsend, Mass / Suggests Wm. Morris?" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
15 1/2 x 14 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.503
Machine Printed
unused
Olive
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
Leaves
berries
branches
Aesthetic
Floral
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