Historic New England

Wallpaper

Border of large roses with a top and bottom band of squares. Printed in pastels, pink, two greens, brown, grey, yellow, gold, and light brown.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175851

Accession Number: 1985.26.118

Border with a meandering vine with large leaves and a variety of flowers. Top and bottom band of a woven band made of crosses, rectangles, and squares. PRinted in gold and black on a pinkish-red ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175852

Accession Number: 1985.26.119

Wallpaper

Scrolling foliage and large flowers with a top and bottom band of bell flowers. Printed in burgundy, mustard, two greens, brown, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175853

Accession Number: 1985.26.120

Wallpaper

Scrolling foliage with large flowers and berries on vene (?). Top and bottom band of stylized floral motifs and cablings. Printed in two pinks, yellow, brown, and pale olive on a grey-brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175854

Accession Number: 1985.26.122

Wallpaper

Border with a continuous undulating floral vine with a fan and retangular element with fretwork. Top and bottom band of ogees. Printed teal, light red, red, two greens.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175855

Accession Number: 1985.26.123

Wallpaper

Floral border with daisies and carnations. Bottom band of lunettes with daisies and carnations. Bottom band of lunettes with a stylized small flower inside. Printed in blue, white, yellow, red, pink, black, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175856

Accession Number: 1985.26.124

Wallpaper

Architectural moldings including bead and reel, modillions, rosettes, and dentils. Printed in grisialle (white and greys) with tan.

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175857

Accession Number: 1985.26.125

Wallpaper

Border of connected continuous circles. Inside a rope in the circular shape with a daisy in the center. Thin vertical lines over pattern. Printed in red and two mauves, two greens, two blues, ochre,, grey, and taupe, on a beige ground.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175858

Accession Number: 1985.26.126

Wallpaper

Border with stylized upright flowers. Framed by jagged yet linear lines and accured flowering branch. Painted in dark fushia, teal, dark grey, 2 browns, and gold on a dark grey ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175859

Accession Number: 1985.26.128

Wallpaper

Border of continuous scrolling foliage with daffodils, roses or peonies. Top and bottom band of a single row of scales. Printed in two reds, yellow, two browns, tan, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175860

Accession Number: 1985.26.130

Wallpaper

Large floral vine with petals with scalloped edges. Top and bottom bands of stylized palmettes. Painted in pale blue, pink, cream, gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175861

Accession Number: 1985.26.131

Wallpaper

A meandering rose vine with butterflies on a background of fret work and stylized shell forms. Printed in three pinks, brown, three greens, silver, and gold.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175862

Accession Number: 1985.26.132

Wallpaper

A border of stylized flowers in geometric pots, pine motifs and a top and bottom band of rosettes in a diaper pattern. Printed in blue, green, red, brown, gold, and soft orange.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175863

Accession Number: 1985.26.134

Wallpaper

Floral border with a top and bottom band of a diaper pattern with stylized flowers. Printed in blue, two browns, gold, beige, taupe, and burgundy flock on a yellow-beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175864

Accession Number: 1985.26.135

Wallpaper

Naturalistic border with swallows with tree blossoms printed in two pinks, gold, beige, brown, two blues, and two blues on brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175865

Accession Number: 1985.26.136

Wallpaper

Aesthetic style border with branches of flowers like spider mums. Printed in light blue, light pink, light brown, and gold. Printed height is 9-1\4. In printed width box, appear 9-1\4 h --LP

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175866

Accession Number: 1985.26.137

Wallpaper

Swirling and scrolling foliage with flowers. Bands of three leaf clover shapes. Printed in yellow, taupe, brown, gold, metallic copper, and aqua.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175867

Accession Number: 1985.26.139

Wallpaper

Border with branches of dense foliage, roses, and daisies. Top and bottom band of shells or lunettes. Printed in crimson, peach, cream, gold, white.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175868

Accession Number: 1985.26.141

Wallpaper

Floral border with peonies and a bottom band of stylized flowers. printed in two reds, black, white, yellow, and gold on a light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175869

Accession Number: 1985.26.143

Wallpaper

Floral border. Roses with foliage. Bottom band of lines with dots on the end. Printed in three pinks, green, brown, yellow-orange, gold on light olive background.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175870

Accession Number: 1985.26.144

Wallpaper

Floral border with a continuous vine of roses with bands of cabling. printed in yellow, orange, beige, red, three greens, maroon and gold on a taupe background.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175871

Accession Number: 1985.26.145

Wallpaper

Floral border with roses, daisies. Printed in three greens, two greys, brown,light brown and gold on a green-cream ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175872

Accession Number: 1985.26.146

Wallpaper

Allover floral design of stylized roses, small blossoms, and berries. Printed in tan, taupe, and grey on a field of metallic gold, horizontal dashes and a beige ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175973

Accession Number: 1985.26.36

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large scale entwined scrolls with acanthus leaves on a field of foliate garlands. Printed in metallic gold, tan, dark brown, metallic brass, and taupe on a beige embossed field. Drop match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: Janeway & Carpender (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175974

Accession Number: 1985.26.259

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Two borders. Scrolling foliage with stylized flowers and a heart shape. Top band of stylized foliage. Printed in blue, orange/brown and gold on a light blue ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175975

Accession Number: 1985.26.311

Wallpaper

Wide stripes of metallic gold chrysanthemums alternating with two rows of turquoise meander. Printed on a salmon ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175976

Accession Number: 1985.26.29

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Two wallpaper borders of Gothic inspired quatrefoils framed by two interlocking quatrefoils. Top and bottom band of flowers. Printed in grey, eyllow, red and brown on a dark ochre ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175977

Accession Number: 1985.26.318

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Art Nouveau style paper with large tulips and massive scrolling leaves. Printed in yellow, three greens, three yellows, brown and mica on a deep garnet ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Thibaut (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 175978

Accession Number: 1985.26.113

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Scrolling and stylized foliage; medieval and/or Rennaissance inspired. Imitates cut velvent. Printed in burgundy on a mauve liquid mica ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175979

Accession Number: 1985.26.313

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Sprays of stylized flowers surrounded by plumes, foliated C-scrolls and fan shapes. Printed in maroon, mauve, yellow, ochre, white and metallic gold on an embossed, pale green ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175980

Accession Number: 1985.26.440

Wallpaper

Unused sample. All over meandering floral vine. Printed in rust, gold, olive, black, beige on a tan ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175981

Accession Number: 1985.26.238

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Central motif consists of peony and smaller flower trails in vase surrounded by delicate arabesques intertwining with ribbons. Prints in 3 browns, gray, yellows, white, on light-green ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175982

Accession Number: 1985.26.327

Wallpaper

Wallpaper sample. Vertically repeating vignette of a crane in a marsh with flowering bough framed by bamboo poles and alternating with stripe of berried vine and butterflies flanked by basket weave panels. Printed in two pinks, red, green, olive green, yellow, tan, brown, and taupe on a light blue, ...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175983

Accession Number: 1985.26.40

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation tapestry paper. Central motif consists of scrolled foliage and dogwood branches surrounding urn with chrysanthemums and grapes. Printed in two browns, two greens, blue, black, pink, red, and white on olive ground. Over printed with diamond pattern in black.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175984

Accession Number: 1985.26.332

Wallpaper

Stylized flowers with grass and pam leaves. Printed in metallic blue, pink, and gold, tan, brown, maroon, and salmon on an ochre ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175985

Accession Number: 1985.26.225

Wallpaper

Tan and grey chrysanthemum flower heads on a field of tan dots and a cream ground.

Date: 1880-1887

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175986

Accession Number: 1985.26.30

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Interlace formed by thorny stems with pink blossoms enclosing peach colored peonies. Printed in peach, salmon, pink, pale peach, two olive greens, yellow, light buile, and metallic gold and copper on a tan embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175987

Accession Number: 1985.26.275

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Interlace formed by thorny stems with pale pink blossoms enclosing yellow and ochre peonies. Printed in yellow, two ochres, light peach, pale pink, two olive greens, brown, and metallic gold, blue and pink on embossed tan ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175988

Accession Number: 1985.26.274

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large scrolling flowers and foliage with beading. Bordered above and below by geometric patterns. Printed in beige, ivory, tan, brown, olive green, light blue, and metallic copper and gold on a beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175989

Accession Number: 1985.26.277

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating palm leaves above a continuous row of interlace. Printed in two greens, brown, rust, metallic gold, copper and pink on a light peach pebble ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175990

Accession Number: 1985.26.284

Wallpaper

All over design of green and ivory foliate vine with tendrils. Printed in three greens and ivory on a blue ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175991

Accession Number: 1985.26.28

Wallpaper

Unused sample (split in two pieces). Floral pattern of grouping of roses and buds. Printed in pink, olive green, white, and blue on light green ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175992

Accession Number: 1985.26.404

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Continuous spray of flowers with a bottom and top band of leaves. Printed in four greens, blue, grey, red, two pinks, gold, dark brown, on a green ground.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175993

Accession Number: 1985.26.234

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Continuous spray of flowers with a top and bottom band of stylized foliage. Printed in pink, mauve, red, teal, grey, brown, two olive greens, light green, gold, brown-beige, on an olive ground.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175994

Accession Number: 1985.26.233

Wallpaper

Unused sample of ceiling paper. Anglo-Japanese inspired design. Central medallion of rose cluster surrounded by geometric frame of fretwork. Printed in two greens, two reds, pink, mustard yellow, embossed blue mica(?), and gold on yellow-green ground. Diapered embossed paper.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175995

Accession Number: 1985.26.1

Wallpaper

Geometric pattern with stylized flowers, circles, and squares and the meander pattern. Printed in blue, red, ochre, and blalck on a light beige, chevron embossed ground.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175996

Accession Number: 1985.26.166

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Gilt figure paper with a highly ornamented vase with a bouquet of flowers, Underneath is interlacing or fretwork and swags suspended from cords with tassels. Gilt on grey ground.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175997

Accession Number: 1985.26.232

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large scale continuous floral vine with winding leaves, band of bead and reel, and basket weave. Printed in two greens, two olive greens, four browns, dark ochre, dark plum, gold, pink and red flock on plum embossed ground.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175998

Accession Number: 1985.26.235

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Continuous band of stylized (needlework) flowers between two rows of repeated geometric elements. Printed in salmon, rust, tan, taupe, peach, olive, black and metallic gold on an embossed brown ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 175999

Accession Number: 1985.26.236

Wallpaper

Unused sample. A variety of foliage and flowers with open work or patterning for depth. Printed in grey, taupe and gold on a grey ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176000

Accession Number: 1985.26.237

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