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Fragment of floral wallpaper from Captain Snow House, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Naturalistic floral vine with red and white roses, blue tendrils and leaves form a background pattern on white ground. Secondary stripe in gray with metallic gold edge only partially visible. Roller-printed in two pinks, red, two greens, yellow, blue, purple, white, two grays and metallic gold on white ground. Fragment is affixed to paperboard. Note states this paper was the first layer of many. Second layer of sidewall and border paper are attached to other side of paperboard (see 2001.281.969.1 and 2001.281.969.2)
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
metallic pigment
floral patterns
stripes
Wallpaper
"G74 / [writing crossed out] hand-painted / Brought from France to Provincetown / for bride at turn of the / century by Capt Snow / First paper under several layers-" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Captain Snow House, Parlor
Unknown
18 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.968
Provincetown (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Possibly United States
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.969.1
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.696.2AB
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.969.2A-C
Machine Printed
wall fragment
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Floral Vine
Roses
Stripes
Floral Stripe
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