Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1969.072.06
- Date:
- 1870-1880
- Description:
- Wallpaper fragment. Gothic Revival style. Tan background, shaded latticework over which is printed in succession a stylized, wide, vertical stripe of flat, floral motif, outlined. In each "aperture" is flat, floral design with pair of triglyphs. Narrow stripes of the tan, with graduated horizontal lines of brown and tan. Printed on edge: "Y C & P Co. 1318". Paper is thin, neutral, machine-made. Paint is opaque, water-soluble. Pigments: light (162-186) and dark (476) maroon or deep red machine-printed on ungrounded paper. Printed on upper right margin, parallel to right edge, "376". Fragment has never been used. Rectangular section, lower left, cut away. 15.5" repeat.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-33.5 W-19.5 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. This paper used in the dining room (keeping room).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Doris F. Purvis
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