Historic New England

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Allover baroque floral pattern. Has a pastel-like quality. Printed in orange, yellow, pale blue, tan and maroon on olive ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176631

Accession Number: 1985.26.609

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Diagonally repeating, Baroque-stylized flowers, acanthus scrolls and diapered strapwork. Printed in orange, maroon and metallic gold on a red, pebble embossed ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176632

Accession Number: 1985.26.625

Unused sample. Anthemion framed by acanthus leaves, foliate scrolls and draped with bellflower swags. Printed in liquid mica and outlined in metallic gold on an embossed, beige ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176633

Accession Number: 1985.26.69

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Rows of repeating foliated losenges against a field of metallic gold, diapered stripes and overprinted with black diagonal screen. Printed in Indian red, taupe, black and metallic gold on a blue ground. Straight match.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176634

Accession Number: 1985.26.791

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Torches draped with swag and framed with stiff-leaf wreath below a lunette of bellflowers and above a row of rosettes and scrolls. Printed in pale yellow, yellow and outlined in metallic gold on a tan, liquid mica ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176635

Accession Number: 1985.26.805

Wallpaper

Border with bat (?), flowers, and tropical plant forms against a field of geometric and stylized floral patterns. Printed in brown, black, red, blue, taupe, and metallic gold. Paper embossed with short, perpendicular lines.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176637

Accession Number: 1985.26.2

Wallpaper

Fragments. Neat stripes and vines pattern. Vertical bands of stylized flowers printed in blue on a yellow ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: Moses Grant & Sons (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176638

Accession Number: 1923.574AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral vine of chrysanthemums and roses with pin dot ribbon and bow knot. Printed in green, blue, two pinks, yellow and white on black ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1780-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176639

Accession Number: 1917.293

Fireboard

Fragments. Neoclassical wallpaper. Putti with birds, drapery swags and arabesque. Printed in red, black, yellow, white and pink.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176640

Accession Number: 1924.902

Wallpaper

Fragment. Overall geometric design of 12-pointed stars alternating diagonally with rosettes on a foliated field. Printed in yellow, blue and red on a tan-grey ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176641

Accession Number: 1917.1584.1

Wallpaper

Unused sample, bottom edge of roll intact. Vertical, landscape vignette - shepherdess and her suitor in pink, red, green and white dotted field with vertical stripe of pink scroll works on both edges.

Date: 1810-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176642

Accession Number: 1921.183

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment used to cover a pamphlet. The pattern is a large-scale floral spray, including carnation, stenciled in yellow, green, pink, blue and purple and block printed in varnish red and black on unground paper.

Date: 1750-1760

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176643

Accession Number: 1922.490

Wallpaper Border

Unused wallpaper border sample. Pink flower heads with white and black leaves bordered above by black cabling and below by alternating palmettes and tulips or bellflowers. Printed on a green ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176644

Accession Number: 1922.425

Wallpaper Border

Two unused border samples. Laurel leaf scaled rod in two greens entwined by yellow, ochre and burnt sienna roses and buds. Bordered above and below by cable and beading. Printed on mustard yellow ground.

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 176645

Accession Number: 1922.424

Wallpaper

Fragment. Flowered vine printed in black against a field of narrow white and grey stripes on a grey ground.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: Ebenezer Clough (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176646

Accession Number: 1922.489.1

Wallpaper

Multiple large fragments of Gothic Revival stripe paper. Pattern consists of vertical stripes of Gothic architecture, complete with pointed arches, tracery, balustrades, quatrefoils and foliage. Printed in tan, three browns, and blue on a satin ground.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176647

Accession Number: 1920.474.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Overall repeat scenery paper. Swans, statue of Apollo with lyre in a lake-side garden. Printed in black and white on a blue ground. Drop repeat.

Date: 1785-1800

Maker: Appleton Prentiss (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176648

Accession Number: 1917.294

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment two of three. Fragment three of three. Pattern of vertical floral sprigs along edge, dotted background, and centralized landscape figure. Figure mostly missing. Printed in white, two shades of green, brown and blue on a periwinkle ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176649

Accession Number: 1924.893

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment one of three. Fragment three of three. Pattern of vertical floral sprigs along edge, dotted background, and centralized landscape figure. Figure mostly missing. Printed in white, two shades of green, brown and blue on a periwinkle ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176650

Accession Number: 1924.892

Fireboard

Fragment. Border. Festoon border with gimp tassles and swags, printed in black, white, red and pink.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176651

Accession Number: 1924.900

Wallpaper

Fragment. Block printed on paper from a hymnal or song book. Notes and lyrics are visible on verso. Man on horse with musket framed by foliage. Printed in blue, white and black on a cinnamon ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176653

Accession Number: 1921.365

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Small meandering floral vine pattern with ribbon and grapes. Printed in green, red, pink and white on a light blue ground.

Date: 1760-1780

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176654

Accession Number: 1932.2740

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Stylized acorn and leaf with branches. Printed in two greys on white with polished ground. Straight match.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176655

Accession Number: 1921.182

Wallpaper

Fragment. Narrow rows (uncut borders) of three dimensional blocks printed in black and white on blue ground. Hand sewn to strip of column from "Washington's Monument."

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176656

Accession Number: 1922.489

Fireboard

Fragment. Cone and leaf border, printed in black and orange on white ground.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176657

Accession Number: 1924.897

Wallpaper

Large-scale, stylized flower framed by serpentine foliate scroll and foliate vine. Roller-printed in yellow and green flocking on metallic silver ground.

Date: 1885-1890

Maker: H. Scott Richmond & Co. (Manufacturer) Mott, Henry H. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product), flocking

GUSN: 176967

Accession Number: 1985.777

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Salmon and red urns and oil lamps connected by bellflower swags and patera and supported by a base of arabesques. Printed on a cream ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: Frederick Beck & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176968

Accession Number: 1985.852A-C

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Diaper pattern with small quatrefoils within squares that join each lozenge as well as a medieval style Greek cross with a circle behind. Printed in gold, black on a taupe ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176969

Accession Number: 1985.16

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Anglo-Japanese framework with Middle Eastern scenes. Egyptian Sphinx, a family shown against a Moorish skyline, palm trees, jugs, plates and flamingos. Printed in metallic copper, gold, pink, orange, silver, olive, brown and white on an olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176970

Accession Number: 1985.18

Wallpaper

Partial roll of wallpaper. Large-scale Baroque flower and berry design frmaed by scrolling leaves. Printed in light green flock on a grey, striated flock field.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176971

Accession Number: 1985.804

Wallpaper Border

Unused wallpaper border sample. Repeating foliate scrolls entwined with garlands tied with ribbon above a continuous row of scalloped lace ribbon entwined around a rod. Printed in red, ochre, light yellow, peach, and metallic gold on a light olive ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176972

Accession Number: 1985.830

Wallpaper

Unused wallpaper sample. Diaper pattern. Tan losenges outlined with brown pin dots with four green diamonds at their centers and brown losenges at the intersections. Printed on a polished tan ground. Straight match.

Date: 1865-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176973

Accession Number: 1985.853

Wallpaper

Fragments. Drapery and bamboo with cording, tulips and foliage. Printed in white, two blues, buff and red on light blue ground.

Date: 1811-1817

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

GUSN: 176975

Accession Number: 1967.184

Wallpaper

Fragment. Scenery of peacock with balustrade and broken Corinthian column. Printed in black and stenciled in pink on grey ground.

Date: 1785-1800

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176976

Accession Number: 1967.174

Wallpaper

Fragment. Landscape figure paper with a man on horseback with a musket, probably a rabbit hunter. His prey (the rabbit) is in a small vignette of its own above. Background field of allover stylized flowers. Printed in orange and black on a neutral ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176977

Accession Number: 1967.183

Wallpaper

Scenic figure and stripe wallpaper fragment. Vertically alternating vignettes of mounted huntsman and hare, bordered on right by cone sprouting floral sprigs. Printed in black and orange on white ground.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176978

Accession Number: 1967.173

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Bamboo and drapery pattern printed in red and white on ochre ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: Possibly Moses Grant, Jr. & Co.

GUSN: 176979

Accession Number: 1967.168

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral bouquet in urn and two rose bouquets connected by swag of cording with tassles. Stripe of green leaves. Printed in varnish green, red, pink and white on beige ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176980

Accession Number: 1967.166.2A

Wallpaper

Black, white and tan wavy lines printed perpendicular to one another with pinked ends and beaded edges on unground paper.

Date: 1815-1825

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176982

Accession Number: 1971.180

Wallpaper

Fragment. Drapery and bamboo. Corded drapery in red and white flanking blue bamboo pole with tulips and foliage on light blue ground.

Date: 1811-1817

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

GUSN: 176983

Accession Number: 1967.210

Wallpaper

Fragment. Horizontal zig-zag stripes framing small repeated stylized flower blossoms. Printed in dark and light blue on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176985

Accession Number: 1967.178

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Allover floral vine. Climbing roses printed in two pinks and white with varnish green foliage on a blue ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176986

Accession Number: 1967.193.3

Wallpaper

Fragment. Three-dimensional block with chained pattern in black and white on two faces, printed on light blue ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176987

Accession Number: 1967.170

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Diaper pattern fromed by scrolled vines enclosing geometric floral medallion. Printed in red and blue on unground paper. Straight match.

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176988

Accession Number: 1967.169

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Grisaille landscape vignette of one seated woman, one woman standing with basket of flowers and boy kneeling playing bowls.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176989

Accession Number: 1967.177

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Landscape figure. Woman under a rose trellis playing with a dog. Scene is framed by serpentine ribbons. Printed in two pinks, varnish green and white on blue ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176990

Accession Number: 1967.179

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments. Vertical repeat of stylized foliate vine separating patera, rayed flowers and elliptical medallions. Printed in two pinks and green on grey ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176991

Accession Number: 1967.206

Wallpaper

Fragment. Part of the paper "Diana". This pattern is Neoclassical or Adam style with urns, floral swags, scrolling foliage and a medallion with a rosette. Printed in white and black on a blue ground.

Date: 1785-1790

Maker: Hovey, Joseph (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 176992

Accession Number: 1967.181

Wallpaper

Landscape figure wallpaper with alternating scenes of a pagoda and boy and girl fishing in a boat. Vertical stripes of foliage frame the scenes. Very stylized sprigs are in the background. Printed in pink, green, black, and white on an ochre ground.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 176993

Accession Number: 1976.92.1

Wallpaper

Fragment of sprig pattern wallpaper. Printed in blue on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 176994

Accession Number: 1967.209

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