Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1969.072.10
- Date:
- 1900-1930
- Description:
- Wallpaper fragment, border, from foil, for a frieze. Colonial Revival style. Realistically rendered pink (183) roses with red (176, 187, 196) shading and violet (435) flowers, forming vine with sharp spines on silver (877 + white) trellis on white background. Top edge has pink and green ( 575, 577) stripes and pink dots. Lower edge has band of red and green stripes with large pink lozenges on green background. Lower edge band width: 1.15". Top design width: 0.45". 28 lozenges per repeat. Lozenges alternate between a thinner and a more-rounded shape. Repeat of background diagonal lines: 2.1". Pigments machine-printed, water soluble, thin. Fragment has never been used.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- W-9.1 L-49.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of collection of wallpapers from house called Chandler Farm, Concord, NH, purchased by donor in 1932 and occupied by Lydia Ann Tenney Little and husband George Little who took it over about 1900. For details on house and history of ownership, see Accession File. Used in Tenney Homestead, 1846-1923.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Doris F. Purvis
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