Historic New England

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 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

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (3). No pattern. Appears to be a peach colored paint (distemper?) over plain blue paper stock.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177687

Accession Number: 1971.207.1

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). The pattern imitates moire. Printed in grey on a white ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177688

Accession Number: 1971.207.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Pattern consists of squares, with flowers in the horizontal and vertical lines, and flowers in a circular framework within the squares. Printed in a sage green on a white ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177689

Accession Number: 1971.207.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover pattern of sprigs. Printed in fushia, white, pale mustard and pale sage on a taupe ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177690

Accession Number: 1971.207.4

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Allover diaper pattern. Within each lozenge are flowers enclosed by diamonds. Each lozenge is joined by rosettes. Printed in beige and cream on an off-white ground.

Date: 1925-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177691

Accession Number: 2000.383A

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of stylized, large flowers made up of small lines and thin, vertical stripes of horizontal lines and rectangles. Printed in blue on a white ground.

Date: 1845-1855

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177692

Accession Number: 1969.333

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of a bouquet of assorted flowers (including peonies, lilac, dafodil) and a medallion of garden tools and flutes (like a trophy). Side border of a vine of lilies or irises. Printed in brown, beige, grey and taupe on a taupe ground.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177693

Accession Number: 1971.208

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments (2). Stylized foliate motif [?]. Printed in green and peach on an off-white ground.

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177694

Accession Number: 1971.209

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Masonry paper with coffered design. Only one corner of octagon present. Printed in grey, two greens, black and white on a grey ground.

Date: 1826

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177695

Accession Number: 1969.339.3

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Floral vine and stripe pattern with a vine framed by short, horizontal lines and dots, vertical chains of openwork frame a stripe. Printed in red, green and blue-grey on a white ground. Third and outermost layer on same side of board partition as .4 and .5. Wall was lathed and pl...

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177696

Accession Number: 1969.342.6

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of imitation marble. Printed in three greys and yellow on a light grey ground.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177697

Accession Number: 1969.343.5

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragments with a Gothic Revival pattern. Printed in white, brown, and grey on a beige ground.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 177698

Accession Number: 1978.182AB

Wallpaper

Fragment. Renaissance Revival pattern with thick scroll or strapwork with a faux woodgrain pattern inside scrolls. Printed in brown and blue on an unground.

Date: 1855-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177699

Accession Number: 1986.1944.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Pattern of stylized flowers and foliage with pindots and pinstripes in the background. Printed in dark grey, blue and white on a light grey ground.

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177700

Accession Number: 1986.1944.1

Wallpaper

Fragment. Floral sprig in two pinks and varnish green on a blue ground with black pindots.

Date: 1785-1795

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177701

Accession Number: 1971.61.1

Wallpaper

Unused sample. Repeating vertical grid with berried vine forming vertical divider and feathered foliage creating horizontal divider. Grid frames floral sprig, cherries, urn, arrow, grape bunch and open box. Printed in maroon, pink, yellow, green and black on pale blue-green ground.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: Zuber et Cie (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177702

Accession Number: 1967.114

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragement. Reproduction of a Renaissance Revival floral stripe. Strapwork with blue, red and green sprigs bordering grey scrolls with roses and blue flowers on white ground. Straight repeat.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177703

Accession Number: 2000.1687

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Renaissance Revival stripe paper consisting of alternating stripes of strapwork medallion and floral bouquets. Printed in green, brown on grey-green, unground paper. Straight repeat.

Date: 1850-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177704

Accession Number: 1966.469.2

Wallpaper

Fragment of pastoral landscape paper, showing leaf and tree limb stripe and a fraction of the vignette. Prints in ochre, two browns, tan on a yellow ground.

Date: 1810-1815

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177705

Accession Number: 1971.61.2

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Overall floral pattern of red and gold flowers with tan stems and leaves on white ground.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177906

Accession Number: 1965.5.14

Wallpaper border

Wallpaper border fragment. Floral stripe, petals overprinted on narrow band of losenges and dots. Printed in red, purple, yellow and green.

Date: 1885-1895

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177907

Accession Number: 1965.5.14b

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Scrolls and flowers in the Reveillon manner. Printed in gold, white and burgundy.

Date: 1889-1900

Maker: Henry Gledhill & Co. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 177908

Accession Number: 1965.5.15

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper border fragment. Red and white roses with green leaves on a tan and yellow ground.

Date: 1890-1899

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177909

Accession Number: 1965.5.15b

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stylized flower (sunflower?) printed in gold within diaper pattern formed by intersecting chains and four-petaled flowers in yellow, accented with metallic white on a tan ground.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177910

Accession Number: 1965.5.16

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. All over flower heads (daisies?) printed in blue and white with pink C-scrolls.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177911

Accession Number: 1965.5.17

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Baroque medallion framed by scrolls. Medallion center is stylized torch in maroon on green surrounded by white beading. Ground is grey with white pin dots.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177912

Accession Number: 1965.5.18

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Blue and white tile design with faux crackle finish. Squares with blue stylized quatrefoils on tan paper.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177913

Accession Number: 1965.5.19

Wallpaper border

Wallpaper fragment. Border. Blue and white tile pattern. Squares and diamonds enclosing stylized quatrefoils on grey ground with white dots.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177914

Accession Number: 1965.5.19b

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Stylized flowers in a diaper or knot pattern. Printed in sienna on bright yellow ground.

Date: 1811-1817

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

GUSN: 177915

Accession Number: 1965.5.2

Wallpaper

Fragment. Arts and Crafts rose and stripe paper on striped ground. Printed in red, pink, green, tan and yellow.

Date: 1910-1915

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 177916

Accession Number: 1965.5.20

Wallpaper

Wallpaper fragment. Diamond pattern of three-dimensional stepped pyramid with bull's eye at each intersection. Printed in brown and white on cinnamon ground.

Date: 1811-1817

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

GUSN: 177917

Accession Number: 1965.5.3