Five fragments of wallpaper from Bath, Maine. Paper is printed with stylized, large sunflower blossoms popular with Aestheic Movement designers. Grasses and petals strewn between the flowers. Roller-printed in pale yellow and metallic gold on blue-gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
Aesthetic Movement
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Mrs. Trott / Bath Me" (handwritten)
"Trott / Bath Me" (handwritten)
Trott, Mrs.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
11 3/4 x 11 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.596A-E
Bath (Sagadahoc county, Maine)
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.595AB
Title Honeybee Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.594
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.597
Machine Printed
wall fragment
Blue
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Sunflowers
Grasses
Aesthetic
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