Wallpaper fragment from Osterville, Massachusetts. Scenery figure pattern with alternating large and small cartouche figures, draped with pink roses, framed pastoral landscape scenes. Large figure depicts a house and a bridge beside a waterway with mountain in the background. The small figure depicts a church with a steeple in the countryside. Block-printed in grays, greens and pinks on gray ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
scenic wallpapers
Wallpaper
" 'The Denube' / East Bay Lodge / Osterville / Has been re[?]" (Last word illegible. Written in pen except for last line which is written in black grease pencil.)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
37 x 17 7/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.472
Block Printed
wall fragment
Grey
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Machine Made
Scenery Figure
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