Wallpaper fragment from the Whipple House, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Large-scale floral spray pattern featuring a carnation. Stenciled in yellow, green, pink, blue and purple and block-printed in varnish red and black on unground paper. English tax stamp on verso.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
block printing (relief printing process)
floral patterns
Wallpaper
"Whipple House / Ipswich" (handwritten)
"Whipple"
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Original To Whipple House,
(Manufacturer)
England
38 x 20 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.114
See also pages 43-44, "English Eighteenth-Century Floral Papers."
Ipswich (Essex county, Massachusetts)
English
Title Wallpaper Accession Number 1922.490
Title Reproduction Wallpaper Accession Number 201.281.854
Block Printed
Stenciled
wall fragment
Ungrounded
Original
Handmade
Sidewall/Fill
Handmade
Laid
Floral
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