Wallpaper fragment used as a day book cover by Mr. William Cottle of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Landscape figure pattern wallpaper fragment depicting a dog disrupting the nest of two fowl. The figure is block-printed in three pinks, maroon and white on pink ground. Diamond patterned geometric stripes flank the figure on both sides. The stripes are block-printed in green and blue. Handmade paper in partial sheets.
wallpapers
wove paper
block printing (relief printing process)
landscape figures
Wallpaper
"Book Cover / from Nantucket / circa 1810" (Waterhouse note)
"Day Book No. 5 / November th 23 yr 1820" (handwritten)
"Wm Cottle"
"Day Book / No 5 / November 23 yr 1810"
"Day Book"
"Dolly Trip" (Plus numbers and other writing that was illegible)
"Mary Cottle" (handwritten)
"Tisbury Co"
"Day Book"
"William Cottle" (Plus other illegible writing)
"Mary Cottle" (handwritten)
"Day Book"
"G.54" [circled] (Waterhouse inventory number?)
Waterhouse, Dorothy S.
Unknown
France
12 x 17 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bernard Scott
2001.281.441
1810-1820 (November 23rd, 1810 and November 23rd, 1820 written by Cottle on daybook cover.)
France
Block Printed
book cover
Pink
Original
Handmade
Handmade
Wove
Scenery Figure
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