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Wallpaper

Collection Type

  • Wallpaper

Date

ca. 1840

GUSN

GUSN-302598

Description

Fragments of landscape figure wallpaper. Repeating vignette of colonial figures: one male standing; one male seated at a table served drinks by a woman outdoors. Beneath the figures is a scene of a boy playing with a sailboat. Vignettes are flanked by entwined foliate vine.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wallpapers
wallpapers
Covering, Wall
Wallpaper
Wallpaper

Associated Building

Original To Swift House, Front Hall

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Quentin Mauer

Accession Number

1973.116

Places

Plymouth (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)

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