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Fragment of wallpaper on narrow piece of board from the ell of the Jared Coffin House, Edgartown, Massachusetts. Wallpaper appears to be a landscape or scenery figure paper. One vignette, partially visible, is of a person riding a goat. Block-printed in black, white, orange and brown on gray ground. The fragment of wood is painted green on the back and yellow on one side. A carved out area and screw holes on the side of the board indicate the fragment once included a hinge and may have been part of a door.
wallpapers
wood (plant material)
Wallpaper
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Jared Coffin House,
Unknown
20 5/8 x 2 1/4 x 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.1197
Block Printed
Wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Paper
Scrolls
Boys
Goat
Scenery Figure
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