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Wallpaper Sample

Maker: Robert Graves Company
Medium: Metallic inks on paper
Place Manufactured: New York, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1880
Dimensions: 45 x 19 7/16 in. (114.3 x 49.4 cm)
Markings: On right hand selvage, printed three times: "THE ROBERT GRAVES Co. 6 2587"
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 1991.39
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John J. Ide, by exchange
Image: Overall, 1991.39.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004

Catalogue Description: Wallpaper sample. Copper, gold, silver, pewter metallic inks and light cream on beige ground. Conventionalized floral scrolling design with 18 3/4" repeat. Main motif is large flower with radiating concentric bands of petals in silver, copper and gold. Meandering pewter vine with generalized silver and pewter leaves and smaller individual flowers of gold and copper. CONDITION - Very good; colors bright; minor losses to right selvage.

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