Historic New England

Wallpaper

Cut sample of gilt-figured wallpaper from Concord, New Hampshire. Pattern of large and small floral sprays block-printed in three greens, peach, red, and dark orange then embossed and gilded with gold leaf. Gray ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287204

Accession Number: 2001.281.526

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Garden Party - In My Garden" pattern with an all-over design of meandering honeysuckle vines. Machine printed in three greens, two pinks, rose, tan, peach and grey on an ivory ground.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287205

Accession Number: 2000.970

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Castles in the Air" pattern with broad blue stripes alternating with grey and tan stripes and overprinted with a white screened baroque floral design. Machine printed.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287206

Accession Number: 2000.971

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Rutland" pattern with a repeating grid of small scale lozenge-shaped fleurons. Machine printed in yellow on a light yellow ground,.

Date: 20th c

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287207

Accession Number: 2000.972

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Sweet Briar" pattern with an all-over design of entwined flowering briar vines. Block printed in teal, blue-green, mauve, pink and taupe on a white ground. Based on a Morris & Company block print paper from 1911 designed by John Henry Dearle.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer) Dearle, J. H. (Designer) William Morris & Co. (Designer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287208

Accession Number: 2000.973

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Blackberry" pattern with entwined blackberry vines with blossoms. Printed in two blues, two greens and gray on an pale yellow ground. Based on an English 1903 block printed paper designed by John Henry Dearle.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Dearle, J. H. (Designer) William Morris & Co. (Designer) Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287209

Accession Number: 2000.974

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper with diaper pattern formed by stylized vines framing stylized blossoms. Machine printed in burnt sienna on a burgundy ground.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287237

Accession Number: 2000.975

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper from Cornish, New Hampshire. Diamond-figure half-drop pattern of stylized floral elements framed by foliate lattice. The design is overprinted with striated lines to imitate a woven surface. Roller-printed in black, ochre, maroon, olive, light green, brown and pink on pale yel...

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287238

Accession Number: 2001.281.527

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Amelia" pattern with an all-over pattern of large floral sprays with roses and other flowers. Machine printed in three pinks, rose, mauve, four greens, lavender, purple and green-grey on an embossed white ground.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287239

Accession Number: 2000.976

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Hertford" pattern with an urn filled with a floral bouquet framed by ribbon and bow knows with tasseled cord entwined with grape vines. Machine printed in pale pink on a light mauve ground.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287240

Accession Number: 2000.977

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Acorn" pattern with oak boughs and acorns entwined with tulips and daisies. Block printed in tan on a beige ground. Based on an English block print paper from 1879 by William Morris aand Co.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: William Morris & Co. (Designer) Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287241

Accession Number: 2000.978

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Christchurch" pattern with an all-over design of flowering vines with blossoms and tendrils. Outline in blue on a field of blue pin dots and a white ground. Based on an English block print paper from 1879 by William Morris & Co.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: William Morris & Co. (Designer) Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287242

Accession Number: 2000.980

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Wallpaper in the "Cresham" pattern with repeating grid of anemones, roses, and rose buds. Machine printed in two pinks, crimson, purple, lavender and trhee greens on a white ground.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: Arthur Sanderson & Sons (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287243

Accession Number: 2000.979

Wallpaper

Two unused fragments. Two rows of wallpaper border with repeating flowers printed in yellow, ochre, red, green, maroon, and tan against an embossed metallic gold field.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287244

Accession Number: 2000.1655AB

Wallpaper

Two wallpaper fragments. Full pattern has alternating stripes of entwined floral vines framing a figure and a bird against a brown field and a trailing floral vine with stylized flowers. Printed in two browns, grey, blue, green, yellow, pink, and red.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287245

Accession Number: 2000.1681.1-.2

Wallpaper

Fragment of Art Nouveau floral wallpaper from Farmington, New Hampshire. Stylized rose vines and flowers form a trellis and medallion pattern. Roller-printed in two reds, pink, two greens and black on red ground. "The Grenfell / 986 / 9" printed in the selvedge. Manufactured by Becker, Smith & Page...

Date: 1905-1915

Maker: Becker, Smith & Page (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287246

Accession Number: 2001.281.528

Windsor Side Chair

Birdcage Windsor chair with seven spindles and bamboo turnings on legs, stiles, and stretchers.

Date: 1805-1825

Maker: Gragg, Samuel (American cabinetmaker, 1772-ca. 1855) (Furniture maker)

Material: tiger maple

GUSN: 287440

Accession Number: 2013.73.1

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of gilt-figured wallpaper from Hancock, New Hampshire. Embossed, gilded floral sprigs are evenly spaced on a gray ground. Three different floral sprigs are represented, each sprig in its own row and the sprigs in each row alternating mirror images of each other.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gilding, embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 287455

Accession Number: 2001.281.529

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of gilt-figured wallpaper from Hancock, New Hampshire. Embossed, gilded floral sprigs figures with small bell-shaped flowers are evenly spaced on a beige ground. The fragment is torn in two.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gilding, embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 287456

Accession Number: 2001.281.530AB

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of gilt-figured wallpaper from Hancock, New Hampshire. Embossed, gilded foliate and berry figures with delicate trailing vines on light blue ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gilding, embossed wall coverings

GUSN: 287457

Accession Number: 2001.281.531

Wallpaper

Fragment of striped wallpaper from Hollis, New Hampshire. Stripe pattern has stylized stalk with leaves growing from either side, one side white, the other black. Between the stalks is an undulating line of white pin dots line that runs around and between black and white stylized flower heads. Bloc...

Date: 1800-1810

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287459

Accession Number: 2001.281.532

Wallpaper

Fragments of a French wallpaper from New Hampshire. Neoclassical pattern featuring a cherub in front of a gazebo with festoons and sprays of roses. Block-printed in black, white, olive, red, and blue on gray ground. Wove paper, partial sheets. Fragment B includes a border fragment with a pattern...

Date: 1780-1790

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287460

Accession Number: 2001.281.533A-F

Brocatelle Fragment

Brocatelle fragment, with Renaissance Revival urns and dragons in red on a yellow ground. The large fragment is stitched together from one small and one large fragment. Four patches on back.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), bast

GUSN: 287463

Accession Number: 2010.30.1.4

Bandbox

Large round pasteboard bandbox (A) and lid (B) covered with wallpaper. Paper has repeating pattern of thin horizontal background stripes and pindots arranged in a geometric pattern. Paper also has framed vignettes depicting a rural countryside with deer. Block printed in green and browns on a cream ...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287488

Accession Number: 1919.395AB

Flattened wall of bandbox lacking both bottom and lid. Covered in wallpaper with repeating stylized floral and vine motifs block printed in white on a yellow, green and blue irise background. Lined with newspaper

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287497

Accession Number: 1953.485

Box with pincushion lid

Oval pasteboard box (A) with lid (B). Box and rim of lid are covered in a French block printed wallpaper from 1810-1815. Wallpaper has repeating quatrefoils interspersed with large stylized flowers. Printed in gold, green, ink and red on ungrounded paper. Lid is a domed fabric pincushion. Pasted ins...

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287498

Accession Number: 2001.120AB

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment from the home of President Pierce, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Tile pattern of alternating medallions and foliate sprigs in squares. Pindots outline the squares and fill the corners of the squares with sprigs. Block-printed in green and white on pink ground. Wove paper, partial she...

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287499

Accession Number: 2001.281.534

Wallpaper

Two fragments of floral wallpaper from Hudson, New Hampshire. All-over, floral vine pattern in which several varieties of flowers, including morning glories, climb on thick branches. Roller-printed in two grays, black, white, and blue on ungrounded paper. Fragments affixed to paperboard.

Date: 1855-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287560

Accession Number: 2001.281.535AB

Wallpaper

Two unused wallpaper fragments with diaper pattern from Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Intersecting gold diagonal lines form a diamond pattern. The diamonds each frame a gold cross. There is a small black diamond with a quatrefoil figure at each intersection of the gold diagonal lines in the pattern. Pap...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 287565

Accession Number: 2001.281.536AB

Wallpaper

Two unused fragments of gilt-figured and striped wallpaper from Keene, New Hampshire. Stripes of alternating gilt-figures, one a single daisy sprig and the other a rose sprig and jewel, are separated by a swirling vine and flower stripe roller-printed in gray on gray ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gilding

GUSN: 287568

Accession Number: 2001.281.537AB

Wallpaper

Two unused fragments of arabesque floral wallpaper from the Governor Bradford house, Kingston, New Hampshire. Pattern of vertically repeating arabesque figures with delicate floral garlands. Block-printed in gold, black, mint green, blue, pink, red, ochre and orange on glazed pink ground.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287585

Accession Number: 2001.281.538AB

Wallpaper

Unused fragment of wallpaper with a simple leaf pattern from the Governor Bradford house, Kingston, New Hampshire. Foliate sprigs block-printed in metallic gold on beige ground. Fragment is the end of a roll.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 287589

Accession Number: 2001.281.539

Wallpaper

Fragments. All fragments have an alternating grid of square and round medallions containing stylized floral motifs. Printed in yellow, orange, cream and gold on a gold ground. Fragments C through F show up to three other layers of earlier paper under the upper paper.

Date: 20th c.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286788

Accession Number: 1996.143.1059A-F

Wallpaper

Fragments. Eleven wallpaper fragments showing up to five layers of different wallpapers and one border.

Date: 19th to 20th c.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286789

Accession Number: 1996.143.1062A-K

Wallpaper

Fragments. Wallpaper fragments with three layers of paper. Most predominant paper shows fretwork cartouches containing floral bouquets. Printed in pink, cream, purple and metallic silver on gray ground.

Date: Twentieth Century

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286790

Accession Number: 1996.143.1060A-C

Wallpaper

Two fragments of Art Nouveau wallpaper from the Whitney House, Stow, Massachusetts. Large scale design incorporating stylized flowers, vines and fruit into arch or striped pattern. Roller-printed in olive on olive ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286791

Accession Number: 2001.281.501AB

Drawing of Wallpaper

Watercolor sketch of wallpaper with Gothic arches and bouquets of flowers. Colors include blues, greens orangges and pinks.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286792

Accession Number: 1917.160

Fragments. Wallpaper border with ribbon swag on engraved ground printed to simulate woven cloth. Block printed in four greens on pale green ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286798

Accession Number: 2000.327AB

Wallpaper

Fragment. Japanese leather paper fragment with heavily embossed design of meandering floral vines with birds perched on the stems. Printed in metallic gold against a red ground.

Date: 1884-1916

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286799

Accession Number: 2000.1685

Wallpaper

Fragments. Wallpaper with all over design of leafy vines entwined with climbing rose vines with pink blossoms. Block pritned

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286800

Accession Number: 2000.1688A-C

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment with stylized floral vine pattern from Townsend, Massachusetts. Stylized vines or branch with light-colored leaves undulate up the paper. Red flowers and berries highlighted with gold accents. Roller-printed in red, orange, black, olive, metallic gold and gray on olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 286801

Accession Number: 2001.281.503

Wallpaper

Fragment. Wallpaper printed with repeating rows of three-lobed leaves with flower blossoms. Printed in green and black.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 286802

Accession Number: 2000.1691

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