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Wallpaper Sample
Wallpaper Sample
ManufacturerFrench, established 1797
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Wallpaper Sample
Date1890–1916
PlaceFrance
Alternate place nameGermany
MediumBlock-printed and flocked paper
DimensionsOverall: 25 1/2 × 19 3/4 in. (64.8 × 50.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas Ellis
Object number84.768
Not on view

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Provenance[A.H. Davenport and Company, Boston, until 1934]; [...]; acquired by Mrs. Thomas Ellis, 1950s; given to MFAH, 1984.
Exhibition History“Pattern Repeat: Wallpaper Then and Now,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 17, 2013–March 30, 2014.
Published References See an example of this flocked wallpaper in Nylander, Richard, Elizabeth Redmond, Penny J. Sander, Wallpapers in New England, (Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1986), 248-249. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
at edge " A.H. DAVENPORT "

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