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Partial roll of floral wallpaper. All-over pattern of stylized flowers roller-printed in light yellow with metallic copper dots on peach ground. The background is roller-printed in metallic gold. The paper is embossed with a woven pattern.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
embossed wall coverings
floral patterns
Aesthetic Movement
Wallpaper
"Victorian - mid 19th century / etc. / many from Salem, Cape Cod, Maine, etc - / I have checked them all + / they can be filed. Not that interesting" (handwritten)
"Almost all late / papers - Victorian, etc / I have checked them / + must press them + put / together in a folder of / later papers" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
19 3/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1048
Machine Printed
Unused
Peach
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Embossed
Paper
Stylized flowers
dots
Floral
Aesthetic
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