Fragment of wallpaper. This block-printed pastoral landscape paper depicts vignettes of a man and woman riding donkeys, alternating with a vignette of a shepardess and a cow. The vignettes are surrounded by arabesques and neoclassical figures. Printed in brown, white and black on a gray ground. Came from the Daniel Murray House of Rutland, MA.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
Unidentified Paper
Wallpaper
Original To
Unknown
Gift of the Messrs. Edward C. Tolman and Richard C. Tolman
1924.182
Block Printed
Grey
Original
Laid
Paper
NeoClassical
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