Wallpaper

Object Name:

Wallpaper

Object ID:

1966.043.25

Date:

circa 1890

Description:

Wallpaper, 36" piece with two pieces cut out. Fragment. Striped pattern with horizontal white lines, red honeysuckle design, glazed. Narrower strip light tan, outlined in green. Tan diamonds or arrows. Three columns of vertical bands of honeysuckle blossoms in reds and greens, stems and petals in brownish green. Vertical repeat: 8.1". Columns of vertical bands alternate. Vertical shift: 4.05". Light tan vertical ribbons between flowers, 2" wide. White outlined fanciful flower in an elongated diamond. Small diamond notches on either side at regular spaces. Green stripe outline on both sides. Design repeat about 4.1". Horizontal repeat: 6.1" for vertical band. Almost continuous, narrow white lines running across paper, from edge to edge: 0.1" apart vertically. They are part of floral pattern and part of vertical bands. Floral pattern printed over horizontal white lines slightly in some areas. In other places, these lines interrupted by the floral design. Colors are dark gray green and olive. Two shades of green, a red, a slightly reddish tan background for flowers.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-36.5 W-18.5 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Calvin L. Tucker