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Partial roll of wallpaper with nine vignettes framed by flowers and groups of trophies. Vignettes are leisure and domestic scenes including a couple dancing, woman and child feeding chickens, three scenes of musicians and a woman with sheep. Roller-printed in peach, three pinks, red, three purples, two browns, two greens, white and four blues on ungrounded paper.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
"Bixby 50 (handwritten)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
19 1/2 (W) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1146
France
Machine Printed
Unused
Ungrounded
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Vignettes
Leisure
Domestic
Dancing
Musicians
Chickens
Fountains
Sheep
Scenery Figure
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