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Fragment of "Honeybee" wallpaper, designed by Candace Wheeler in 1881, from a house in Bath, Maine. In the pattern honeybees fly among circling floral vines on a background pattern of honeycomb. Block-printed in metallic gold, metallic silver, nude, tan, brown, yellow on light blue ground. The paper is embossed with a woven texture.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
block printing (relief printing process)
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Trott / 173 Brown St / Providence / From old / house in / Maine" (Second entry is written in ballpoint pen.)
"Mrs. Trott / Bath, Me" (handwritten)
Honeybee
Trott, Mrs.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Wheeler, Candace (Designer)
33 x 14 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.594
1881 (Design date.)
Bath (Sagadahoc county, Maine)
United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.595AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.596A-E
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.597
Block Printed
wall fragment
Lt. Blue
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
bees
flowering vines
woven texture
Aesthetic
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