Wallpaper
- Object Name:
- Wallpaper
- Object ID:
- 1969.072.03
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Wallpaper fragment, one repeat. Design consists of wide vertical stripes imitating birchbark or wood grain in blue-grey (428), flanked on either side by thin vertical beading in green (353), white, and blue-grey. Central and far-left bands are of intermediate size, in shades of brown (153, 155, 465-466), yellow (116), and dark red (187) of a geometric pattern. Paper is ungrounded, thin, acidic. Paint is thin, water soluble, machine-printed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-28.7 W-18.7 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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