Wallpaper

Object Name:

Wallpaper

Object ID:

1978.077.04

Description:

Wallpaper, roll. Off-white on off-white embossed design of scrolls and flowers. Very rococo style of flowers and scrolls and curleycues. Many scrolls with lattice-type designs in them. Overall, very light tan background color. Printed on paper. Behind design, paper with very small pebble-like texture. Embossed scrolls, lattice, flowers, and vines. Pale yellow design used to delineate petals, vines, blossoms, and leaves. Small 3-dot pattern in lattice decorations between raised ribs of lattice. Lines on top surface or ribs and lattice of same pale yellow. Darker yellow color printed what would be bottom of lower edges of many of design elements as a shading. On left edge, smooth band 1.1" wide. On right edge, band 0.9" wide. Vertical repeat 24.7". On left and right edges, repeated pattern of color dots and short lines covering distance ~4". Horizontal repeat of 10".Vertical thickness of raised areas: 0.09", from back of paper to front of paper in one raised area, of which there are many.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

W-22.6 inches

Provenance:

"From the Whittemore Homestead in Pembroke. Gift of Mary W. McEvoy of Bangor, Maine, Elizabeth W. Getty of Gorham, Maine, and Mrs. Richard W. Mirick of Princeton, Mass."

Credit Line:

Gift of Mary W. McEvoy, Elizabeth W. Getty, and Margaret W. Mirick

People:

Whittemore, Arthur G. (1856-1931), Whittemore, Caroline R. (1858-1934), Whittemore, Manvel O. (1890-1961), McEvoy, Mary W. (1917-2001), Getty, Elizabeth W. (1920-1992), Mirick, Margaret W. (1919-2004)