Historic New England

Wallpaper

Fragment. Repeated pattern of children at play (on rustic teeter-toter) in a dense forest glen. Printed in greens, brown, red, blue, pink and white on grey ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178518

Accession Number: 1938.396

Wallpaper

Five fragments (a-e) of cabled border. Crimson ground with crimson flock. Four are attached to flock paper 1968.180.1.

Date: 1764-1766

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178519

Accession Number: 1968.180.2

Five fragments (a-f) of striped floral, leaf and pinwheel wallpaper. Three with cabled border attached (see 1968.180.2). Crimson ground with crimson flock. Straight repeat. Some pieces are attached to 1968.180.2.

Date: 1764-1766

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178520

Accession Number: 1968.180.1

Wallpaper

Two fragments of embossed rose and scrolled leaf paper. Deep blue ground with flowers and leaf printed in three browns, yellow, green and metallic gold.

Date: 1890-1915

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178521

Accession Number: 1987.144

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Plain brown flocked paper.

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178522

Accession Number: 1940.976A

Wallpaper

Cut sample of floral spray and floral sprig paper, tossed pattern. White ground with pattern of floral spray consisting of roses and daisies and smaller sprigs printed in light and dark greys and white. Leaves and berries printed in metallic gold. Straight match.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178523

Accession Number: 1940.977

Wallpaper

Fragment. Large-scale floral medallion bordered by stiff leaves and framing a scalloped diamond center with blossom terminals. Printed in blue on a yellow ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178524

Accession Number: 1940.1042.1B

Wallpaper

Fragment. Large medallion pattern made up of flowers, scrolls, diamond shapes, foliage and horizontal pin stripes. Printed in blue and red on a yellow ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178525

Accession Number: 1940.1042.1A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper border fragment. Large leaves and flowers. Printed in two blues and four browns on white ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178526

Accession Number: 1940.1042.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Naturalistic and large striped floral pattern, wisteria. Printed in two browns, three blues, white, two tans on a cream ground.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178527

Accession Number: 1940.1042.2B

Wallpaper

Fragments. Small blue, black and pink sprigs alternating with white palmettes on yellow ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1780-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178528

Accession Number: 1966.491A

Wallpaper

Two fragments of ivy leaf patterned paper. Orange ground with ivy leaf trailing up pole or stalk printed in green, black and grey(?). Background pattern of scattered sprigs in grey. Repeat undetermined.

Date: 1805-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178529

Accession Number: 1966.490b

Wallpaper

Fragment of geometric-style paper comprising squares and pinwheels in circles. Cinnamon ground with pattern printed in red and light yellow.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178530

Accession Number: 1966.490a

Wallpaper

Five fragments of border (a-e). Stylized acorn and leaf pattern. Light green ground with orange and black. Larger fragment has fragment of complimentary paper attached (1966.491a). Three smaller fragments have newer paper laid on top.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178531

Accession Number: 1966.491.2

Wallpaper

Three fragments of wallpaper with palmettes and six-pointed stars in circles alternating with stripes of diaper-patterned panels. Two fragments are printed in orange, browns, purple, yellow, and white. The third fragment is discolored to an overall shade of grey and white.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178532

Accession Number: 1966.491.3

Wallpaper

Fragment of diaper and leaf pattern paper. Cinnamon ground with diaper and leaf printed in white and dark orange. Fragment "b" has border attached (border is 1966.491.2a). Repeat?

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178533

Accession Number: 1966.491.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Remains of red paint (no discernable pattern) on coarse grey paper.

Date: 1780-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178534

Accession Number: 1966.491B

Wallpaper

Fragment of scenery figure paper depicting man with two shepherdesses; small group of sheep at top left corner. Pattern prints all in two browns, tan, two greens, white on a light green ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178535

Accession Number: 1915.49

Wallpaper

Rococo Revival (or Baroque Revival) cartouches framing rose bouquets and leafy vines. Separated by diapering. Burgundy, blue, two greens, pink, white and gray on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178536

Accession Number: 1915.22

Wallpaper

Rococo Revival (or Baroque Revival) cartouches framing rose bouquets and leafy vines. Separated by diapering. Burgundy, blue, two greens, pink, white and gray on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178537

Accession Number: 1915.23

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diagonal repeat of framed bouquets, orange, green and grey on polished white ground.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178538

Accession Number: 1916.338

Wallpaper

Fragments. Landscape figure printed in grisaille. Two men dressed in belted white tunic and wearing turbans, crouched behind a knoll firing rifles. Does not appear to be a hunting scene.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178539

Accession Number: 1915.24A-C

Wallpaper

Baroque or Rococo Revival cartouches framing rose bouquets and leafy vines. Separated by diapering. Burgundy, blue, two greens, pink, white and gray on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178540

Accession Number: 1915.21

Wallpaper

Large fragment of scenic figure, Reproduction of "House Fair" painting by French painter Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), who did original artwork on which paper is based. Three vignettes showing scenes from fair. Central, rectilinear-shaped vignette depicts riders and horses preparing for country-style ra...

Date: 1855-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178541

Accession Number: 1916.56.1-.2

Wallpaper

Cut sample of landscape figure paper. Shows two pastoral scenes of young girl with sheep and young girl feeding chicken and rooster. White ground with blue stripes; left side is edged with wide stripe of blue dots placed inside a [boxy] shape. Vignettes in blue-grey and black.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178542

Accession Number: 1916.57

Wallpaper

Six fragments of medallion and stripe paper. Grey ground with embossed medallion and linked chain, printed in red, green and gilt.

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178543

Accession Number: 1977.105

Wallpaper

Diaper pattern wallpaper with lacy netting in the background. Scrolling foliage frames the diamond-shape losenges and arches with delicate lacework. Printed in green and grey on a blue ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 178544

Accession Number: 1977.106A-H

Wallpaper

Mounted sample and fragments of Gothic arches and foliate scrollwork wallpaper. Printed in brown, tan, two greys, and bright blue (reverse printed) on beige ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178545

Accession Number: 1943.783.1A-G

Wallpaper Fragment

Fragments of hand blocked and flocked border. Grape vines entwining grisaille plasterwork printed in three browns, white and four blues on rust and brown flocked ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178546

Accession Number: 1943.783.2A-E

Wallpaper

Cut sample of scenic paper depicting modes of transportation, past and present. Printed in six greens, three browns, two purples, two reds, yellow, orange, blue, white and ochre on ungrounded paper. Straight match.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: Heywood, Higgenbottom & Smith (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 178547

Accession Number: 1921.114

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Paper depicting mounted riders engaged in a fox hunt with hounds. Printed in red, blue and yellow. Drop repeat.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178548

Accession Number: 1919.268

Wallpaper

Nursery paper depicting nursery rhyme (4 and 20 black birds baked in a pie). Printed in two greens, blue, yellow, orange, white, and tan on ungrounded paper. Straight repeat?

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178549

Accession Number: 1919.269

Wallpaper

Copper engraved nursery paper depicting eight scenes: Robinson Caruso, Cinderella, Goldilocks, 4 & 20 blackbirds, the lion & the unicorn, Simple Simon, and two unidentified scenes framed by foliate scrolls with morning glories and daisies. Printed in blue, red and yellow. Straight match.

Date: 1895-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178550

Accession Number: 1919.270

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from end of roll. Repeating floral sprays in six designs. Printed in rose, red, yellow, blue and green on a light blue brushed ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178551

Accession Number: 1922.14

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Alternating medallions of foliate scrolls radiating from floral center. Printed in white on French blue ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178552

Accession Number: 1922.8

Wallpaper

Fragment. All over meandering vines with berries. Printed in two greys on a maroon field and a cream ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178553

Accession Number: 1922.5

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Three rows of uncut borders. Angular beaded moulding in light ochre and olive and enclosing orange losenges on a brown field. White ground paper.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178554

Accession Number: 1922.10

Wallpaper

Fragment. Green foliate border with white (now faded) flowers. Printed in three greens, brown and white on white ground.

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178555

Accession Number: 1922.11

Wallpaper

Large-scale floral and foliate design in blue and pink on a yellow, blue and pink irise ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178556

Accession Number: 1922.2A-C

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Panels of imitation tufted velvet in crimson flock overprinted in magenta and burgundy and alternating with anthemion in tan, brown and metallic gold on peach ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178557

Accession Number: 1922.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diaper pattern. Lavender diamonds enclosing orange and red rose and rose bud sprigs on a field of lavender dashes on unground paper.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178558

Accession Number: 1922.6

Wallpaper

Broad vertical floral separated by vertical stripes of Rococo scroll work. Green, grey and red printed on a grey ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178559

Accession Number: 1922.7

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Four rows of uncut borders. Repeating buckles in tan, ochre and brown on a bright blue field on white ground paper.

Date: 1850-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178560

Accession Number: 1922.9

Wallpaper

Fragments. Foliate scrolls radiating from patera center, alternating with foliate medallion. Printed in rose on a pale yellow ground.

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178561

Accession Number: 1922.4CE

School Book Cover

Fragment of scenery figure wallpaper. One existing vignette shows geese in foreground with barn in background. Prints in pink, varnish green, red, white on gold ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178562

Accession Number: 1934.1938

Wallpaper Border

Fragment. Feather border printed in black, orange, white and grey on a blue ground.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178563

Accession Number: 1970.496.2.2A-C

Wallpaper

Fragment. Vertical strip of "peacock" paper. Peacock in a landscape standing on the base of a broken column. A balustrade with foliage is in background. Printed in black, white and blue on grey ground.

Date: 1785-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178564

Accession Number: 1970.496.1.1AB