Two wallpaper fragments of stencil-like paper. Pattern of stylized and berries. Printed in blue on ochre ground.
Date: 1800-1810
Maker: unknown
Material: paper (fiber product)
GUSN: 176679
Accession Number: 1923.204AB
Wallpaper fragment (one of three). Block-printed with floral sprig pattern, including stylized tulips and lilacs. Printed in blue and gray on light blue ground.
Date: 1820-1830
GUSN: 176680
Accession Number: 1920.325.1B
Wallpapered fireboard with central scene of a sailboat and crew on rocky waters and ominous clouds. Oval scene is framed by leaves and scrolls. Printed in blues, greens, greys, red and white on a black ground.
Date: 1855-1865
GUSN: 176681
Accession Number: 2000.2223a
Wallpaper border with continuous pattern of stylized flowers framed by scrolling tendrils. Printed in gold on a beige ground.
Date: 1860-1870
GUSN: 176682
Accession Number: 2000.2223b
GUSN: 176683
Accession Number: 1920.325.1A
Fragment. Alll over foliate design. Large scale leaves in two grays and two greens foliate elements printed loosely across white ground. Straight match.
GUSN: 176684
Accession Number: 1920.326A
Fragment. Acorn and leaf wallpaper. Printed in gray and maroon on white polished ground. Straight match.
Date: 1840-1850
GUSN: 176685
Accession Number: 1920.327A
Border fragment. Meandering floral vine with a floral trim. Printed in yellow, two shades of green, white and peach on a black ground.
GUSN: 176686
Accession Number: 1920.326
Walllpaper fragment. All over arcs crowned with foliage in a heavily dotted ground. Elements are too stylized to permit naturalistic interpretation. Printed in black and white on tan. Straight match.
Date: 1800-1820
Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)
GUSN: 176687
Accession Number: 1920.324A
Fragment. Bead and reel border. Printed in three greys and white on red ground.
Date: 1840-1860
GUSN: 176688
Accession Number: 1985.4B
Wallpaper fragments. Moses Grant Jr. & Co. Leaf and medallion design in white and black on cinnamon ground. Straight repeat.
Date: 1811-1817
Maker: Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 176690
Accession Number: 1930.1619
Fragment. Pastoral scenic paper. Printed in black and white on grey ground. Straight repeat.
Date: 1785-1790
GUSN: 176691
Accession Number: 1930.1624
Wallpaper fragment from the Stephen Robbins House, Lexington, Massachusetts. Three-dimensional block and white chaining on blue ground.
GUSN: 176692
Accession Number: 1971.2
Fragment. Moses Grant Jr. & Co. border. Floral scratchwork pattern printed in black and orange on cinnamon ground.
GUSN: 176693
Accession Number: 1930.1619b
Unused wallpaper border sample. Curvilinear "ribbon" in orange outlined in yellow on a black field and bordered by narrow band of yellow fretwork. Printed on orange ground.
Date: 1790-1810
GUSN: 176694
Accession Number: 1971.5A
Unused wallpaper sample. Allover ornamental and stylized flowers (poppies?) and vine. Printed in magenta, purple, red, blue, green, black and metallic gold on off-white, pebble embossed paper. Straight repeat.
Date: 1870-1880
GUSN: 176695
Accession Number: 1971.13
Wallpaper fragment. The design consists of a slightly pointed arch springing from Gothic columns to which shields and flags are attached. Two putti rest on top of the arch and three figures in classical garb are under a canopy within the arch. Yellow ground.
Date: 1786-1800
Maker: Appleton Prentiss (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 176696
Accession Number: 1966.488
Unused Sample. Left side trimmed. Garlands and arabesque frame and connect "sculptural" group of 3 Cupids - 2 seated playing instruments; 1 standing holding an arrow. Printed on pink ground. Paper has basket weave, embossing. Straight repeat.
Date: 1890-1900
GUSN: 176697
Accession Number: 1968.49
Unused wallpaper sample. Overall repeat, octagonal panels with foliage are separated from marbelized, rectangular panels by marbelized strips.
GUSN: 176698
Accession Number: 1968.50
Unused sample. Imitation granite: black and white random, free-hand speckles on grey ground. Random repeat.
Date: 1845-1860
GUSN: 176699
Accession Number: 1968.51
Unused wallpaper border sample. Grisaille ribbon and bow with green ruffles on a light blue ground with orange edges. Fragment (A) is a wall fragment. Fragments (B) and (C) are unused and uncut samples of the same border.
GUSN: 176700
Accession Number: 1917.51A-C
Unused wallpaper border sample. Border has ribbon moulding with bow knots and scalloped edges, with feathers and is framed by reel moulding. Printed in two blues, yellow, orange, black, white, green, grey and taupe on a black ground.
GUSN: 176701
Accession Number: 1971.30
Fragment. Floral medallion and wheat pattern. Printed in three greens and white on a polished green ground.
GUSN: 176702
Accession Number: 1956.M25
Fragment. Bead and reel moulding printed in grisaille on a red field. Printed on a light grey ground.
GUSN: 176703
Accession Number: 1971.5B
Wallpaper fragments probably from the Stephen Robbins House, Lexington, Massachusetts. Three-dimensional block wallpaper, alternating with star element. Printed in white, black and varnish green on blue ground. Some fragments with attached border (see 1917.1583b).
GUSN: 176704
Accession Number: 1917.1583
Fragment of flocked rosebud border. Printed in light green, white and four pinks with olive green flock, over printed with black and bright green on polished green ground. Border is printed over sidewall pattern of floral medallions on wheat background. Another fragment of this border design exi...
GUSN: 176705
Accession Number: 1930.1622
Fragments. Three-dimensional diamond wallpaper. Printed in black, grey and white, varnish green on pale green ground.
GUSN: 176706
Accession Number: 1971.3
Fragment. Narrow borders composed of neat and stylized serpentine vine with suggested flowers. Printed in black and white on grey. Straight repeat.
Date: 1790-1800
GUSN: 176707
Accession Number: 1985.31
Unused wallpaper sample. Renaissance Revival strapwork printed in grey, tan and brown on white polished ground. Straight repeat.
Date: 1850-1860
GUSN: 176708
Accession Number: 1985.2C
Fragment. Masonry paper with raised marble panels bordered by ivy scrolls. Printed in three greys on a polished, white ground. Straight repeat.
GUSN: 176709
Accession Number: 1985.4
Fragments. Indians or other indiginous people shown making a basket. Thatched roofed building with flag, probably a mission or garrison? shown with palm trees, butterfly and dragonfly. Printed in green, black, pink and orange on sky blue ground.
GUSN: 176710
Accession Number: 1930.1616
Unused sample. Allover floral designs (possibly cherry or apple blossoms) against a field of small, stylized floral elements. Paper has pebbled surface. Printed in metallic gold, maroon, black, ochre and taupe on an olive ground.
Date: 1885-1890
GUSN: 176711
Accession Number: 1968.48
Unused sample. Allover floral-acanthus scrolls around a centrally placed urn holding a floral spray. Printed in blue, brown, tan, yellow, pink and maroon on olive ground. Straight repeat.
Date: 1880-1890
GUSN: 176712
Accession Number: 1968.53
Unused sample. Rococo foliate scrolls, stylized flower and fleur-de-lis. Has brocade-like horizontal lines running through design. Printed in teal, black, metallic gold and blue on blue-grey ground. Straight repeat.
GUSN: 176713
Accession Number: 1968.62
Wallpaper fragment. Large-scale Renaissance Revival stripe with strapwork intertwined with rose garlands. Printed in two browns, ochre and bright blue on tan ground.
GUSN: 176714
Accession Number: 1971.14
Fragment. Stylized foliage forms, each unit being bilaterally symmetrical around its vertical axis. Printed in grey and green on white ground. Straight repeat. Repeat height of 19" includes selvedge.
Date: 1825-1835
GUSN: 176715
Accession Number: 1971.4
Fragment. Rainbow paper. Central stripe in yellow of delicate stylized foliage alternating outward to edges in light blue, scrolled foliage and feathered leaf forms. Straight repeat.
GUSN: 176716
Accession Number: 1985.5
Fragment. Geometric moulding shaded to appear three dimensional. Printed in maroon flock with black and pink and bordered below by row of beading in tan, brown, yellow and metallic gold.
Date: 1860-1880
GUSN: 176717
Accession Number: 1971.5C
Unused wallpaper sample. Allover floral pattern - Lotus? with thick, intertwining stems. Printed in white on ochre ground and paper embossed with swirled liner. Straight repeat.
Date: 1899-1910
Maker: Allen-Higgins Wall Paper Co. (Manufacturer) Short, Myron W.
GUSN: 176718
Accession Number: 1968.69
Fragment. Repeating fan shape with central floral motif surrounded by foliate scrolls. Printed against alternating green and light green stripes. Printed in white and two shades of green on a light green ground.
Date: 1810-1820
GUSN: 176719
Accession Number: 1971.2194
Unused sample. Allover floral pattern with scrolling foliage. Printed in white, gold and copper mica and khaki on a sand ground.
Maker: Cresswell & Washburn (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 176720
Accession Number: 1968.64
Fragment of striped wallpaper. Pattern consists of alternating stripes of ogees, circles and four-petaled flowers with stripe of stylized palm and sprig leaf. Printed in brown, tan and green on buff ground.
GUSN: 176721
Accession Number: 1930.1621
Border sample. The pattern is architectural with palmettes, a bit of fretwork, and equal sized geometric rectangles in a row. Printed in red flocking, brown, chestnut and metallic gold on a peach ground.
Date: 1865-1880
GUSN: 176722
Accession Number: 1971.28
Unused sample of three different elaborately patterned boards with stripes separating each panel. Printed in browns and tans with green, red, yellow and black stripe.
Date: 1855-1875
GUSN: 176723
Accession Number: 1971.19
Unused sample. Pattern of meandering and interwinding leafy vines. Two shades of light grey, brown, printed on white satin ground.
Date: 1865-1875
GUSN: 176724
Accession Number: 1971.25
Unused sample. Vertical stripes. Naturalistic floral sprigs repeat vertically on stripes which alternate with stripes bearing a geometric and stylized floral pattern. Printed in three greens and glossy white on white ground. Straight repeat.
GUSN: 176725
Accession Number: 1971.36
Unused striped wallpaper fragment. Continuous floral vine reverse printed in red and alternating with tan and ochre honeycomb stripe bordered by reform style elements in maroon and orange. Straight match.
GUSN: 176726
Accession Number: 1968.114A
Cherry blossoms, fret-work, hybiscus, and asymmetrical lattice. Printed in light blue, three pinks, grey, taupe, cream, gold, on a greenish grey ground.
Date: 1880-1895
GUSN: 176625
Accession Number: 1985.26.158
Unused sample. Floral bouquet of roses and poppies framed by scrolls. Printed in two browns, tan, ochre, and crimson on a wood-grained, varnished ground.
Date: 1875-1895
GUSN: 176626
Accession Number: 1985.26.352
Unused sample. Urn draped with bellflower swags, alternating with anthemion flanked by foliate scrolls and bordered above and below by rows of repeating squares and rosettes. Printed in tan, brown, metallic gold and metallic copper on an embossed beige ground.
GUSN: 176627
Accession Number: 1985.26.65