Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1969.005.079
- Description:
- Wallpaper, fragment, framed. White background with two Pilgrims, male and female with orange touches, standing by a fountain and brown portico. Green water pouring from fountain in five streams, green ivy branches and leaves encircle fountain, background and foreground. Water system behind figures. Left and right of figures are casement windows with diamond-shaped panes. In lower left corner is part of different design. Appears to be part of a scroll, but is cut off.
Paper grounded with white, glossy pigment. Machine-printed pigments: green (345, 808), brown (482, 472-477), orange (811 + white), blue (542, 545), pale violet (538), and white.
Covered with glass and framed win simple black frame with metallic gold lining. - Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10 W-14.5 inches
- Provenance:
- On cardboard backing is newspaper clipping of a house and what appears to be an iron fence. Caption reads, "THE OLD MARSTON HOUSE / Home of Capt. Wm. Marston and Located Corner of Washington Street / and Barton Square." Presumably, the paper came from that house, located in Salem, MA.
- Credit Line:
- Josiah Abbott Dadmun and Susan Dadmun Collections, Bequest of Helen I. Dadmun Doble
- Subjects:
- Wallpaper
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