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Two wall fragments of scenery figure wallpaper. Swiss architectural figures frame scenic vignettes, one of a couple crossing a rustic timber bridge and the other of mountain goats on an outcrop over water with a village and mountains in the background. The water and mountains in this scene are colored using a rainbow or irise effect, dark blue-green water fades to lighter green water to light blue in the mountains. Block printed in black, three browns, three greens, peach, salmon, white, two blues and two grays on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"fragments of early scenics useful for repairing old scenic papers" (From package marked)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1118AB
France
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.483
Block Printed
Wall fragments
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Swiss architecture
timber pridge
Mountain goats
village
mountains
water
landscape
Scenery Figure
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