Fragment of a roll of uncut wallpaper border corners. The paper is printed with two corners per roll width. The fragment is printed with six complete corners. The corners are printed in an architectural molding pattern with scrolling acanthus leaf figures, rosettes, ribbon and beads and single row beads. Block-printed in white, two grays and four pinks on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
moldings and molding components: architectural
Wallpaper
"1880-1890" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
30 3/4 x 22 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.992
Title Wallpaper Border Accession Number 2001.281.991
Block Printed
Unused
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Border
Paper
Acanthus Leaves
Rosettes
Beads
Ribbon
scrolls
NeoClassical
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