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Wallpaper

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

1860-1870

GUSN

GUSN-293467

Description

Partial roll of Scenic Figure wallpaper with three repeating pastoral vignettes. Vignettes are of a mounted figure feeding his horses before a well, a group of men hunting water fowl, and a woman standing in water speaking to a man on horseback. Roller-printed in two greens, yellow, orange, blue, white, gray and dark maroon on gray ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper

Associated Person

Waterhouse, Dorothy S.

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

22 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bernard Scott

Accession Number

2001.281.1188

Places

Probably England (United Kingdom) [country]

Related Items

Title Wallpaper Accession Number 2001.281.209

Wallpaper Details

Print Technique

Machine Printed

Form

Unused

Ground Color

Grey

State

Original

Type

Machine Made

Use

Sidewall/Fill

Medium

Paper

Decor Motif

Men
Women
Dogs
Horses
Hunt
Well
Pastoral
Landscape
Castle
church

Period/Style

Scenery Figure

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