Partial roll of wallpaper from West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Large-scale, all-over foliate pattern of leafy branches bearing apples, grapes and plums. The dense foliate pattern is roller-printed in pink, red, dark maroon, three greens, tan and two purples on a background pattern of small black dots in varying sizes on brown ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"Paper circa 1880 / from / Mrs. Watts - West Barnstable, Mass / Home built late 1700s" (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
United States
11 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1088
West Barnstable (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Probably United States
Machine Printed
Unused
Brown
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Leaves
Branches
Apples
Plums
Grapes
Naturalistic
Foliate
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