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Rolled fragment of "The Apple Tree" wallpaper from the Woodward House in Massachusetts. Large-scale, stylized trees with triangular, leafy canopies. The trees shows some similarities to the Arts and Crafts style. Each tree has a single wayward branch and small patches of stylized flowers grown between the trees. Roller-printed in green, blue, brown and red on green ground. English.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Wallpaper
"TRIM OFF EITHER SIDE / THE 'APPLE TREE' " (Roll edges tattered, some of text missing.)
"Late & homely / Circa 1900 / From Cambridge (Allis) / From Woodward House - Lynnfield or Reading" ("Lynnfield or Reading" added later.)
Apple Tree
Allis, Nancy Olive Morison
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Woodward Emory House (Cambridge, Mass.),
Unknown
England
34 3/4 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1090
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Machine Printed
Unused
Green
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Stylized trees
Flowers
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