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Partial roll of Rococo Revival wallpaper. Bright colored floral sprays in a framework of gray asymmetrical ruffled foliate scrollwork on white ground. Block-printed in two grays, green, blue, orange, purple, pink and dark red on white satin ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Rococo Revival
Wallpaper
"Marion Merrill / 11 Hollis Rd. / Portland" (handwritten)
"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)
Merrill, Marion
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
22 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1050
Same paper, different colorway. From General McClelland House, South Woodstock, Connecticut.
Portland (Cumberland county, Maine)
France
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1969.575.2
Block Printed
Polished
Unused
White
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Flowers
Scrolls
Dots
Sprays
Rococo Revival
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