Historic New England

Wallpaper

Used fragment from a fireboard. Meandering grape leaves and tendrils on vine. Prints in two browns on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1845-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 178214

Accession Number: 2000.426

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover pine bough or willow-like foliage. Printed in green and gray on a white ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178215

Accession Number: 2000.601.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Joined rose festoons with ribbons. Printed in red, pink, white and two greens on brown ground.

Date: 1780-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178216

Accession Number: 2000.601.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Small scale floral sprays densely arranged and separated by rustic lattices. Printed in pink, red, ochre, green and beige on olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178217

Accession Number: 2000.603.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Lozenges in pale pink framing flower basket on pink ground.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178218

Accession Number: 2000.603.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Large chrysanthemum in pink, red and gray surrounded by other flowers in yellow and blue on a light olive ground.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178219

Accession Number: 2000.603.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern formed by burgundy c-scrolls and framing rose sprigs on tan fields and unground paper.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178220

Accession Number: 2000.609.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover floral design in brown, two greens and white on turquoise ground.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178221

Accession Number: 2000.609.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Reverse printed quatre foils on a crimson field and a pink ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178222

Accession Number: 2000.618.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Diaper pattern. Small tri-lobed leaves outlined in red on a tan field framed by provencals.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178223

Accession Number: 2000.618.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Dodecagons framing stylized floral form. Printed in pink on crimson ground.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178224

Accession Number: 2000.618.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Stylized linear floral element enclosed within diamonds formed by small pink dots.

Date: 1875-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178225

Accession Number: 2000.618.5

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover imitation textile design of stylized flowers. Printed in brown and black on a magenta ground.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178226

Accession Number: 2000.618.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Small stylized sprigs in blue on a beige field centered within diamonds formed by tan lines. Printed on taupe ground.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178227

Accession Number: 2000.619.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover foliate design. Grey leaves with suggested berries outlined in maroon on a white ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178228

Accession Number: 2000.619.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral medallion in green surrounded by a field of yellow scrolls (badly faded) on a beige ground.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178229

Accession Number: 2000.631.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Common stripe. Meandering bellflower vine altering with wide band of eyelet design. Printed in white on gray.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178230

Accession Number: 2000.631.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Granite pattern, possibly blocks. Printed in black, white and burnt sienna on beige ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178231

Accession Number: 2000.634.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Fresco design. Interlace pattern in red bordered by black bands of repeating yellow dots which makes a right angle and frames tan woodgrain design. Printed on white ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178232

Accession Number: 2000.634.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Scalloped lozenges enclosing tri-lobed foliate sprigs outlined in maroon on a tan field.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178233

Accession Number: 2000.634.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stripe. Continuous repeat of flowers sprouting from a vertical vine. Printed in red, maroon, beige and black.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178234

Accession Number: 2000.634.5

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover willow-like foliate design. Printed in green and turquoise on a white ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178235

Accession Number: 2000.634.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Granite pattern of random speckles. Printed in black, white and red on a grey ground. Possible block design.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178236

Accession Number: 2000.634.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Corner section of fresco paper. Plain gray paper. No visible pattern.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178237

Accession Number: 2000.635.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral stripe. Repeating orange flowees alternating with reverse printed white floral vine on a gray ground.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178238

Accession Number: 2000.637.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Striped with stylized floral ornament alternating with meandering vine. Printed in yellow, orange and black on unground paper.

Date: 1865-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178239

Accession Number: 2000.637.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover, floral design. Printed in green on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178240

Accession Number: 2000.639.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Striped design. Stylized berries alternating with flowers or foliate vine stripe.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178241

Accession Number: 2000.639.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diaper pattern. Losenges framing foliate elements within quatrefoils. Motifs are bisected and half are printed in black, the other half white. Printed on uncut pages from a book.

Date: 1810-1820

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

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178242

Accession Number: 2000.639.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover foliate design. Printed in gray and green on white ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178243

Accession Number: 2000.652.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Plaid stripe with coral or seaweed edges bordering whide band of coral or seaweed elements surrounded by concentric ripples. Printed in coral, black and white on a blue ground.

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 178244

Accession Number: 2000.652.1

Agriculture, a Classical Procession

Gouache painting of Classical figures and agricultural references. The central figure is female and is riding a chariot pulled by oxen. The procession is framed by a Neoclassical border in an architectural style. The mat is gold cut with curved arched top. The frame is dark wood carved with a raised...

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), gouache (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197920

Accession Number: 2006.44.527

Rug

A rag carpet that is woven together. The center panel has twenty-four squares with alternating flowers and x-shapes. The border is just a solid gray band that may have been a navy blue at one time. It has no fringe and no pound edges. All of the colors are very faded and dingy.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197922

Accession Number: 2006.44.516

Cabistan rug

Cabistan rug with center panel of three small latched diamonds centered in larger geometric shapes. The outer diamonds are in toothed hexagons, the center diamond is in an eight pointed star. The inner border is a band of multi-colored rosettes, the middle border is a band of multi-colored eight-poi...

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 197923

Accession Number: 2006.44.518

Rug

Rug with center medallion of a rosette within an eight-pointed star surrounded by eight palmettes. The field around the medallion has a meandering vine that connects a variety of serrated leaves, rosettes and palmettes. The inner and outer borders have pale pink rosettes on a meandering vine. The mi...

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber)

GUSN: 197924

Accession Number: 2006.44.517

At the Loring Farm, Salem

Watercolor landscape painting of a dirt vehicle track through a rolling landscape. Trees fill the background, yellow flowers in a meadow in the foreground, and a rocky outcrop to the right. Glossy painted black frame with beading on the inside and outside borders.

Date: 1900-1907

Maker: Brooks, Mary Mason, 1860-1915 (Painter)

Material: watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197925

Accession Number: 2006.44.528

Harbor View

A black and white etching of a harbor with a moored boat in the lower right and a city coastline at the top. Cream paper and black ink. Matted and framed in a thin black painted wooden frame. Initials and copyright of printer in lower left corner.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: Plowman, George Taylor, 1869-1932 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197941

Accession Number: 2006.44.530

Virgil

A watercolored print with two Classical figures under a tree. "Virgil" under the scene with text in script on either side of the title. Framed is a black painted wood frame with raised border on inside.

Maker: Kauffman, Angelica, 1741-1807 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197942

Accession Number: 2006.44.531

Cathedral Interiors

Black and white etching of a cathedral interior with figures along the bottom of the picture. The frame is gold with a raised outer border. The artist's mark and signature is at the bottom right corner.

Date: 1910

Maker: Haig, Axel Herman, 1835-1921 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197944

Accession Number: 2006.44.532

Cathedral Interiors

Black and white etching of a cathedral interior with a patterned floor and robed figures kneeling at the bottom right. The upper right corner is dark and contrasts with the light left side, which features figures near an altar. The frame is painted gold with a raised outer border. The artist's mark ...

Date: 1904

Maker: Haig, Axel Herman, 1835-1921 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197945

Accession Number: 2006.44.533

Harbor View

Oil painting of a harbor with a developed coastline on the left side. There are boats and a small beach on the right and two buildings with flags in the middle. The frame is painted gold with high outside edge reliefing towards the inner edge with shorter levels.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: Jordan and Harberg (Framer) House of Russell & Co. (Importer)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197946

Accession Number: 2006.44.535

Harbor View

Oil painting of a harbor scene with eight ships along the bottom and an island in the middle with a pagoda. The frame is painted gold with high outside edge reliefing towards the inner edge with shorter levels.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: Jordan and Harberg (Framer) House of Russell & Co. (Importer)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197949

Accession Number: 2006.44.536

Harbor View

Oil painting of a harbor with various boats along the bottom of the picture. There are large buildings along the coast in the middle of the scene and three flag poles across the middle with an American flag in the center. The frame is painted gold with high outside edge reliefing towards the inner e...

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: Jordan and Harberg (Framer) House of Russell & Co. (Importer)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197951

Accession Number: 2006.44.537

Harbor View

Oil painting with various ships in the foreground and islands behind. There is a white building on the island near the right side. The frame is painted gold with high outside edge reliefing towards the inner edge with shorter levels.

Maker: Jordan and Harberg (Framer) House of Russell & Co. (Importer)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197955

Accession Number: 2006.44.538

St. Stephen's Ordination and His Distribution of Alms

Color print with figures in robes and halos on left side. A gray column in the middle separates the figures without halos on the right. There is a building with columns in the back left and various buildings and foliage in the back right of the scene. The print is round at top with a flat bottom. Th...

Date: 1883-1897

Maker: Reproduction of Angelico, Fra, ca. 1400-1455 (Artist) Kaiser, Eduard, 1820-1895 (Artist) Frick, Fritz (Lithographer) Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art (Publisher) Doll & Richards (Dealer)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197967

Accession Number: 2006.44.539

"Ann Maria" of Salem

Watercolor of a masted ship with an American flag flying behind it. The ship is in the center of the scene with a church and other buildings on the coast near the right side. There is a smaller boat on the left side. The frame is painted black with a slightly raised outer edge and a beaded border ar...

Date: 1903

Maker: Macpherson, M (Copyist)

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197985

Accession Number: 2006.44.540

Roof Tops on a Country Road

Watercolor painting of a country road with various roof tops among the trees. A mountain stands behind the houses. The frame is painted gold with a raised outer edge.

Date: 1906

Maker: Kimball, Sarah S. (Painter) Doll & Richards (Dealer)

Material: watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 197996

Accession Number: 2006.44.542

Tile

Decorative tile with yellow glaze. Floral design in relief on front.

Date: 1881-1883

Maker: J. & J.G. Low Art Tile Works\n (Manufacturer)

Material: earthenware, ceramic tile, glaze

GUSN: 198021

Accession Number: 1959.521A

Tile

Decorative tile with olive-green glaze. Foliate and scroll relief design on front. Same design as 1959.521F, different colorway.

Date: 1881-1883

Maker: J. & J.G. Low Art Tile Works\n (Manufacturer)

Material: earthenware, ceramic tile, glaze

GUSN: 198045

Accession Number: 1959.521C

Tapestry

Tapestry with a solid green velvet border over a panel with a repeating design of a row of blue peacocks, brown lions, and spotted leopards. All the animals are separated by large flowers and curved green and gold leaves. The edges are bound in a braided rope of green, pink and cream. The backing is...

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), velvet (fabric weave), silk (textile)

GUSN: 198070

Accession Number: 2006.44.544

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