Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment has six complete and two partial corners. The corners are printed with a dense floral border of white daisies, pink morning glories, violet cornflowers and wheat shafts. Roller-printed in white, three grays, four greens, yellow, gold, brown, three pinks and three shades of violet on white ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
35 1/4 x 22 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.988
France
Block Printed
unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
daisies
morning glories
cornflowers
wheat shafts
Floral
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