Unused fragment of sanitary nursery wallpaper. Paper depicts designs after British illustrator Kate Greenaway. Vignettes depicting little girls and mothers are labeled for months of the year and framed by green willow branches. Engraved roller-print with pastel colors on a tan ground.
wallpapers
paper (fiber product)
engraving (printing process)
Wallpaper
"From / Grafton Mass / Mr. Forbush Anderson" (handwritten)
Anderson, Forbush, Mr.
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Possibly David Walker (Manufacturer)
After Greenway, Kate (Illustrator)
35 x 20 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.380
See mention of Kate Greenaway papers as part of Nusery Papers.
Grafton (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Engraved
unused
Tan
Original
Machine Made
Sidewall/Fill
Machine Made
Nursery
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