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Wallpaper border fragment from the Brown House, Providence, Rhode Island. Wide border printed to imitate architectural molding featuring trophy figures encircled by grape vines. Block-printed in brown, beige, tan, gray, white and fuchsia on pink ground. Reproduced by Waterhouse Wallhangings.
wallpapers
borders (ornament areas)
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
Neoclassical
Wallpaper
"Original / from third floor / of Browne house / Providence, R. I." (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To John Nicholas Brown House (Providence, R. I.), 3rd Floor Room
Unknown
10 3/4 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.576
Probably France
Block Printed
wall fragment
Pink
Original
Handmade
Border
Laid
Paper
Trophy
Grape Vines
Architectural Molding
Flowers
NeoClassical
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