Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1966.043.17
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Wallpaper, square piece with all-over blue flowers, green and dark red ferns, leaves with black leaves each on large white leaf. Design on buff background. Four columns of floral design. Vertical repeat of 15.8". Horizontal offset of 9.2" between the two matching columns. Other two columns have same separation. Vertical offset 8" between alternating columns. Clusters of blue imaginative blossoms with short stems. Some dark green and very dark reddish-brown leaves. Clusters of imaginitive white blossoms with light-colored petals and darker central parts on buff background. Lighter color blossom have stems of same color. Design width: 18.5". Along one edge, 0.3" wide unprinted band and a 0.2" wide, unprinted, buff band. On opposite side, unprinted band: 0.15" wide and unprinted buff background band: 0.3" wide. On same side, two adjacent small color dots: one with deep red, the other with a couple blues. On back: "10" in pencil. Also on back a couple patches of red that have bled through.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-24.1 W-19.4 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Calvin L. Tucker
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