Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Striped pattern with bouquets springing from a foliated vase. Printed in yellow, pink, green, white, grey, violet, liquid mica and gold on a yellow ground.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: Zuber Et Cie (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177233

Accession Number: 1981.137

Unused sample. Pattern of rococo, trailing C-scrolls, cornucopia, and flowers. Printed in beige, two browns on a blue ground. Embossed. Looking at the reverse of a sample, the varnish has yellowed with age and turned the ground a green-blue color.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177234

Accession Number: 1981.96

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Baroque, stylized flowers surrounded by undulating vines of tulips and various other flowers. Printed in light blue, white and yellow on a blue ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177235

Accession Number: 1981.109

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large, Baroque, floral pattern with cartouche, openwork and scrolled foliage. Imitates needlework. Printed in white and grey on a mustard yellow ground with liquid mica. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177236

Accession Number: 1981.136

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Striped pattern with floral bouquets. Printed in maroon, white and metallic gold on a maroon ground. Embossed.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177237

Accession Number: 1981.131

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Bouquets of flowers in an acanthus vase on stripe. Printed in cream, taupe, dark grey, light green and gold on a green ground.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177238

Accession Number: 1981.135

Wallpaper

Unused sample. A basket of flowers framed by arabesques of foliage with bellflowers imitating quilted applique. Printed in white on a plum ground. Embossed.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177239

Accession Number: 1981.100

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Large floral pattern. Flowers framing large, billowing leaves. Imitation of damask or cut velvet. Printed in light and dark green.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177240

Accession Number: 1981.143

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover, naturalistic floral pattern with meandering vines and butterflies. Printed in two greens, aqua, brown, tan, gold and red.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177241

Accession Number: 1981.110

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Baroque style paper with flowers in C-scrolls, openwork, shield, and scale pattern. Printed in gold on a taupe ground.

Date: 1875-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177242

Accession Number: 1981.113

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Baroque paper with central, exotic flower surrounded by C-scrolls, vine and scrolling foliage. In light and dark green flock on a dark green ground.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177243

Accession Number: 1981.119

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Birds perched in trailing oak branches, with leaves and acorns. Printed in three greens, two browns, two blues, red, three pinks, grey, and yellow on a white, polished ground. Straight match.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177244

Accession Number: 1981.138

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Baroque floral pattern with strapwork and openwork. Imitates Italian cut velvet. Printed in red flock.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177245

Accession Number: 1981.139AB

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Neoclassical or Adamesque style paper with a central motif of anthemion with foliage encircled by wreaths of bellflowers with bowknots, arabesques and swags of beads. In red flock on red ground.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177246

Accession Number: 1981.144

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Striped pattern alternating between wide and narrow stripes in shades of brown.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177247

Accession Number: 1981.145

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Striped pattern with stripes of varying widths. It appears combed. Printed in beige and grey on a beige ground on a textured or oatmeal paper.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177248

Accession Number: 1981.146

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Repeat of a single waterlily plant rising from water. Background has a crackled surface pattern. Printed in two pinks and grey on a cream ground. Straight match.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177249

Accession Number: 1981.167

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of scrolling flowers and fruit in off-white on an ungrounded paper.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: Jeffrey & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177250

Accession Number: 1981.168

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Iris in a cartouche surrounded by dense foliage, including scrolling leaves and strapwork. Pattern is embossed, wash gold so relief is in gold and then in green. Probably hand finished. Textured paper to look like fabric.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177251

Accession Number: 1981.170

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Imitation of an allover, plain weave textile. Printed in gold and brown on a gold ground.

Date: 1885-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177252

Accession Number: 1981.172

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Aesthetic border with dense foliage and a top band of squares and horizontal stripes.

Date: 1880-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177657

Accession Number: 1969.337.7C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Large floral frieze with top and bottom bands of acanthus leaves and mouldings. Printed on a texture paper to simulate a textile. In orange, blue, olive, black, red, mauve, beige and khaki on an olive ground.

Date: 1890-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177658

Accession Number: 1969.337.7B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. No pattern visible except for white, pin strips on a grey ground.

Date: 1796-1797

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177659

Accession Number: 1969.338.1

Wallpaper

Fragments (2). Overall foliate and floral pattern. Printed in green and grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177660

Accession Number: 1969.339.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stripe pattern with central arabesque pattern. Scrolling foliage as framework around an urn with a garland of greens held up by griffins. Printed in green, red, white on a grey ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177661

Accession Number: 1969.339.5

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Foliate paper. Printed in green, olive on a cream ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177662

Accession Number: 1969.339.7

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern consists of a vertical, stylized floral/foliate motif with a crown of small flowers and ending in a bell flower. Motif is surrounded by a foliate wreath. Printed in green, fushia and silver mica.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177663

Accession Number: 1969.339.8

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Anglo-Japanese style paper with an overlapping, asymmetrical framework of rectangles and circles and dense foliate including cherry blossom branches. Printed in brown, two greys, cream and green-gold on a beige ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177664

Accession Number: 1969.340.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern consists of allover, thin, meandering branches with flowers and leaves. Printed in orange, brown-red and white on a light green ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177665

Accession Number: 1969.340.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of large, but delicate, scrolling foliage and floral swags. Printed in silver and gold mica, and light grey on a cream ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177666

Accession Number: 1969.340.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Art nouveau pattern of roses on thorny stems. The paper stock of the rose pattern has the texture of an oatmeal paper and the ground is printed with brown striations that imitate grass cloth. Printed in two greens, red and brown on an unground.

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177667

Accession Number: 1969.340.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Embossed design of floral ornament of 3-lobed shape with leaves, thistles, cross and fleur-de-lis as embellishments. Printed in gold on a cream ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177668

Accession Number: 1969.340.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Pattern has faded almost completely, but there are vertical stripe lines, pin dots and sprigs. Printed in green, black, white on a bluish green ground. Tax stamp on verso. Also on verso notes and drawings relating to this paper and 1969.341.1.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177669

Accession Number: 1969.341.1AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Large foliate pattern with pin dots. Printed in red and white on a cream underground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: Moses Grant Jr. & Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177670

Accession Number: 1969.341.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Pattern of a central medallion framed by a diamond shape of flowers surrounded by a larger foliate vine, also in a diamond shape. Printed in white on a grey ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177671

Accession Number: 1969.341.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of an undulating, feathered ribbon with sprigs. Printed in two pinks, white and green on a pale green or blue ground.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177672

Accession Number: 1969.342.1B

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (4). Pattern of vertical stripes with sprigs. Printed in two pinks, white, green on a blue ground.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177673

Accession Number: 1969.342.1A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (4). Samples are too small to see any distinct motifs except leaves and pin dots. Block printed in white and red on a cinnamon ground.

Date: 1811-1817

Maker: Moses Grant & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177674

Accession Number: 1969.342.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (5). Pattern is very faint but looks like curly scrolls and medallions. Printed in blue-grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177675

Accession Number: 1969.342.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Pattern of medallions with porous-like walls, with flowers in the center. Rosettes and stylized vines or wheat frame medallions. Printed in green on an unground.

Date: 1825-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177676

Accession Number: 1969.342.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of allover, meandering vines with ivy. Printed in green and grey. Second layer of wallpaper on board (on top of .4).

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177677

Accession Number: 1969.342.5

Wallpaper Fragment

Wallpaper fragments (4). Pattern of a band of interlocking rings. Printed in olive and white on a black ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177678

Accession Number: 1969.343.1C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stripe pattern with flowers and foliage in vertical columns embellished with scrolls, rosettes, swags of beads, birds and anthemia. Printed in two greens, two blues, white and mauve on a green ground.

Date: 1800-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177679

Accession Number: 1969.343.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover pattern of large foliage and flowers. Printed in white and green on an unground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177680

Accession Number: 1969.343.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Scene, in a vignette framework, of a house in a rural setting, with tree, bridge and pond. Also a smaller vignette of a tree. Printed in blue, green and red on an unground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177681

Accession Number: 1969.343.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of foliate vines or bellflowers that burst into scrolling foliage and flowers. Printed in green and grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177682

Accession Number: 1969.343.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stripe pattern with floral bunches and thin, horizontal lines. Printed in red, green and blue on a white ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177683

Accession Number: 1969.343.7

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper fragment. This is a reproduction paper of 1969.343.1B. Striped pattern with vines. Printed in two greens, grey on a white ground.

Date: 1970

Maker: Allen-Doane Company (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177684

Accession Number: 1969.343.1D

Wallpaper Fragments

Six wallpaper fragments. Pattern consists of stylized foliage. Printed in green and white on a gray ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177685

Accession Number: 1969.343.1A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Renaissance Revival pattern. Vertical stripes with an elaborate central stripe with strapwork, openwork, scrolls and flowers. Printed in two browns, taupe on polished, cream ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177686

Accession Number: 1969.339.6

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