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Wallpaper Border

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Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1865-1875

GUSN

GUSN-289733

Description

Long fragment of strawberry wallpaper border. Strawberry plants with pink berries, white flowers and green leaves on an upper band of white and lower band of blue. Thin blue stripe along upper edge. Roller-printed in blue, three greens, two pinks, red, brown, ochre and yellow on white ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper

Associated Person

Waterhouse, Dorothy S.

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 7/8 x 69 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bernard Scott

Accession Number

2001.281.689

Wallpaper Details

Print Technique

Machine Printed

Form

unused

Ground Color

White

State

Original

Type

Machine Made

Use

Border

Medium

Paper

Decor Motif

Strawberry
Flowers
Stripes

Period/Style

Floral

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